EGAVE

bog

About 1.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Bamako Sign Language.
  2. noun An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
  3. noun An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland.
  4. noun Boggy ground.
  5. noun Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
  6. noun A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
    I'm on the bog
  7. noun An act or instance of defecation.
  8. noun A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

Similar words

peat bog bog down fen marsh muskeg peatland fens swamp peat morass

Often followed by

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Word family

bogged bogging bogs

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