bog

CEFRB2

/bɔɡ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Wet, soft ground with moss and plants.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.

Examples

  • It's back there somewhere, through the bog.

  • The skyscraper is expected to sink into the bog.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)

  2. Boggy ground.

  3. Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.

More examples

In context

  • I'm in the bog

  • I'm on the bog

  • Near-synonyms: fen, slough, moor

Synonyms

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The explorer's boots were swallowed by the soggy blank, requiring great effort to escape.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Inherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos. The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”). Its use for toilets is now often derived from the resemblance of latrines and outhouse cesspools to bogholes, but the noun sense appears to be a clipped form of boghouse (“outhouse, privy”), which derived (possibly via boggard) from the verb to bog, still used in Australian English. The de...