Bog

Definition: Bog

Bog

Noun

1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel.

Verb

1. Cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the house".

2. Get stuck while doing something; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation".

Date "bog" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	Bogs, denotes burdens under whose weight you feel that endeavors to rise are useless. Illness and other worries may oppress you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Environment	A type of wetland that accumulates appreciable peat deposits. Bogs depend primarily on precipitation for their water source, and are usually acidic and rich in plant residue with a conspicuous mat of living green moss. (references)
Food & Agriculture	Wet spongy ground. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	Pool retting is a process in which the bundles of plants. . flax. . are submersed in stagnant water in --, --, or -- for 10 to 15 days. Source: European Union. (references)
Slang	Noun. Source: Comes from the reference of a swamp, bog. Definition: Lavoratory; also see khazie. Context: Used in casual conversation, in place of other words of bathroom. Social Source: British 20-somethings. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A bog is a wetland type that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material. The term peat bog in common usage is therefore somewhat redundant, although it would be proper to call these sphagnum bogs if the peat is comprised mostly of acidophilic moss (peat moss or Sphagnum spp.). Lichens are a principal component of peat in the far north. It is typical of bogs that they have no significant inflows or outflows. Moisture is provided by condensation. Bog waters are acidic due to the accumulated decaying vegetation.

Bogs are distributed in cold, temperate climates, mostly in the northern hemisphere (Boreal). Sphagnum bogs are widespread in northern Europe. Ireland is more than 15 per cent bog; Achill Island off Ireland is 87 per cent bog. There are extensive bogs in Canada (called muskegs), Scotland, Finland, and Russia. There are also bogs in the Falkland Islands.

There exist other terms for what are bogs or peat wetlands similar to bogs. The term moor refers to a flat, boggy area with patches of heath and peat moss (i.e., a bog). An example of this wetland type is the vast expanse of moorland in south-west England, Dartmoor.

Bog habitats

Bogs are habitats for carnivorous plants, because bogs provide few nutrients. They also offer a unique environment for animals. For instance, English bogs give a home to the boghopper beetle and a yellow fly called the hairy canary.

Some bogs have preserved ancient oak logs useful in dendrochronology and they have yielded extremely well-preserved bog bodies, with organs, skin and hair intact, such as Tollund Man and Lindow man, buried there thousands of years ago after apparent Celtic human sacrifice.

Uses of bogs

A bog is a very early stage in the formation of coal deposits. If fact, bogs can catch fire and often sustain long-lasting smoldering blazes, producing smoke and CO₂ causing health and environmental problems. After drying peat is used as a fuel. More than 20 per cent of home heat in Ireland comes from peat and it is also used for fuel in Finland, Scotland, Germany, and Russia. Russia is the leading producer of peat for fuel at more than 90 million metric tons per year.

The other major use of dried peat is as a soil amendment (sold as peat moss or sphagnum) to increase the capacity to retain moisture and enrich the soil. It is also used as a mulch

These industrial uses of peat threaten the continued existence of bogs. More than 90 per cent of the bogs in England have been destroyed.

Sphagnum bogs are also used for sport. Bog snorkeling is popular in England and Wales and has even produced the associated sport of mountain bike bog snorkeling. Llanwrtyd Wells, the smallest town in Wales, hosts the World Bog Snorkelling Championships. In this event, competitors with mask, snorkel, and scuba fins swim along a 60-meter trench cut through a peat bog.

July 30 is International Bog Day.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
BOG	English	Bank of Guyana	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Bog

Synonyms: peat bog (n), bog down (v). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: swamping (food & agriculture, geography).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Marsh	Noun: marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei.
Uncleanness	Dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	But then I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and the oomny ones use, like, inspiration and what Bog sends (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)
Movie/TV Titles	I Bog stvori kafansku pevacicu (1972) Bog je umro uzalud (1969) Zhivoj bog (1935) Blade af Satans Bog (1921) Bog mesti (1912)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	The Bog Man and the Archaeology of People (reference) The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved (reference) The Magic School Bus: Butterfly and the Bog Beast: A Book About Butterfly Camouflage (Magic School Bus) (reference) Bodies from the Bog (reference) Bog People (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Tog E Go Bog E (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A crawfish burrow in a bog. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).		Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Aster sp. at John's Pond Bog. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).
	A coastal Washington cranberry bog. Photo by Keith Weller. Credit: USDA ARS News.		Hunter Creek Bog. Credit: John Craig.
	White-flowered Bog Orchid (Platanthera leucostachys) along Morine Creek, a tributary to Elk Creek. Credit: Terry Tuttle.		Aerial View of Bog Lakes and Recent Forest Burn. Credit: Alaska Image Library.
	The Rio Cobre near Bog Walk, Spanish Town, Jamaica, W.I. Credit: Library of Congress.		The Bog Walk near Spanish Town, Jamaica, W.I. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Cranberry bog, southern New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress.		Launching of 10,000 ton ships. Carolina Shipbuilding Company. One year ago this bustling shipyard was a river bog. Partial view of newly-constructed shipyards on the south-east Atlantic Coast, which are soon to be turning out one 10,000 ton cargo vessel e. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	GHANA	However, the BOG dominates the Interbank Market by controlling the supply of large amount of surrendered proceeds from gold and cocoa. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. Joel Frad Bink
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Bog" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.44% of the time. "Bog" is used about 293 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	90.44%	265	18,112
Noun (proper)	4.44%	13	97,576
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	3.41%	10	111,207
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.37%	4	175,879
Noun (common)	0.34%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	293	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bog".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Bozez	N/A	Biblical	Bog
Hezer	N/A	Biblical	A bog
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bog": american bog asphodel ♦ bog asphodel ♦ bog aster ♦ Bog bean ♦ bog bilberry ♦ Bog blitter ♦ Bog bluiter ♦ Bog bumper ♦ Bog butter ♦ bog candles ♦ bog down ♦ Bog earth ♦ bog hemp ♦ bog in ♦ bog iron ♦ bog iron ore ♦ Bog jumper ♦ bog kalmia ♦ bog laurel ♦ bog manganese ♦ bog manganese ore ♦ Bog moss ♦ Bog myrtle ♦ bog ore ♦ bog paper ♦ bog pimpernel ♦ bog plant ♦ bog rein orchid ♦ bog rhubarb ♦ bog rose ♦ bog rosemary ♦ Bog rush ♦ bog soil ♦ Bog spavin ♦ bog star ♦ bog trotter ♦ bog whortleberry ♦ common bog rosemary ♦ european bog asphodel ♦ flow bog ♦ northern bog lemming ♦ peat bog ♦ quaking bog ♦ raised bog ♦ southern bog lemming ♦ string bog. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "bog": bog-berry, bog-cotton, bog-crossing, bog-down, bog-eyed, bog-garden, Bog-hat, bog-holes, bog-house, bog-iron ore, bog-land, bog-like, Bog-mouse, bog-myrtle, bog-off, bog-ridden, bog-roll, bog-rush, bog-snorkelling, bog-standard, bog-trotters, bog-trotting, bog-wood.
	Ending with "bog": blanket-bog, peat-bog, sausage-bog.
	Containing "bog": ex-bog-trotter.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "bog"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nevojtore (bathroom, can, John, latrine, lavatory, loo, rear, toilet, water closet), moçal (backwater, bayou, Fen, Mars, Marsh, mire, morass, muskeg, quagmire, slew, Slough, swamp), ligatinë, kënetë (backwater, Fen, Marsh, moor, morass, muskeg, quag, quagmire, Slough). (various references)

Arabic		‏مستنقع (fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, moss, ooze, patch, pond, quag, quagmire, slew, slough, sump, swamp), ‏غوص (dive, diving, draught, pearl fishery, pitch, plunge, sink, submerge, submergence), ‏غرز (batter, drawing pin, impact, implant, jam, lodge, pike, plant, plunge, poke, push, sink, stab, stick, stick in, thrust), ‏عجز عن التقدم. (various references)

Bulgarian		утешавам се (be consoled), тресавище (mire, moor, morass, ooze, quag, quagmire, sink, slew, swamp), клозетна яма, мочур (ooze), затъвам (embed oneself, immerse, sink, subside), забатачвам се, блато (backwater, hag, mere, mire, morass, muskeg, pan, pool, swamp, water hole). (various references)

Chinese		沼泽 (Boggy, marsh, morass, slew, slews, swamp). (various references)

Czech		bažina (Fen, Marsh, morass, moss, quag, quagmire, Slough, swamp), záchod (cloakroom, lavatory, long-drawn, rest room, toilet, washroom, water closet), moèál (morass, quag, quagmire, Slough, swamp). (various references)

Danish		sump (heel, marsh, slough, swamp). (various references)

Dutch		moerasachtig terrein (marsh, swamp), moeras (marsh, swamp). (various references)

Farsi		لجن زار (Marsh, Swampy), گنداب (Sewage, Sewer), سیاه اب (Marsh, Mossy, Swamp), درباتلاق فرورفتن , باتلاق (Marsh, Mire, Morass, Quagmire, Slop, Slough, Swamp, Swampland). (various references)

Finnish		suo (fen, marsh, swamp). (various references)

French		marais, marécage. (various references)

German		sumpf (cesspool, marsh, mire, morass, mud, puddle, quagmire, Slough, sump, swamp, swampland). (various references)

Greek		έλος (marsh, swamp). (various references)

Hebrew		לשקוע (be immersed, decay, decline, degenerate, sag, settle, sink, socket, subside), ל�"תקע (get stuck, jam, strand), בצ�" (mire, morass, swamp), רקק (mire, morass, puddle, swamp). (various references)

Hungarian		mocsár (fen, Marsh, marshland, mire, moor, moore, moorland, morass, moss, muskeg, Slough, sough, swampland, tarn, wash). (various references)

Indonesian		rawa (marsh, marshy, quagmire, swamp), paya (quagmire, swamp). (various references)

Italian		pantano (mire, morass, ooze, quagmire, Slough, swamp), palude (Fen, Marsh, morass, moss, quagmire, slash, slew, Slough, slue, swamp), acquitrino (Marsh, morass, moss). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		泥沼 (marsh), 沼 (lake, pond, swamp). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぬま (lake, pond, swamp), どろぬま (marsh). (various references)

Korean		수� �. (various references)

Manx		reaisht (moor), moanee (moor, turbary), curree (boggy, curry, marshy), curragh (canoe, coracle, fen, marsh; wickerwork pannier, quagmire, swamp), bolgagh (abdominal, bellied, billowy, blister, bulging, moss, puffy, variola), boglee. (various references)

Norwegian		myr. (various references)

Pig Latin		ogbay.(various references)

Portuguese		pântano (fen, flush, marish, marsh, mere, moor, morass, muskeg, quag, quagmire, sough, swamp). (various references)

Romanian		baltã (Fen, lake, mere, moor, morass, plash, pool, puddle, slop, Slough, swamp), mocirlã (Marsh, morass, sink, slime, slush), mlaştinã (Fen, Marsh, mere, mire, moor, morass, puddle, quagmire, slop, Slough, swamp), cloacã (cesspool, cloaca, sewer, sink). (various references)

Russian		трясина (mire, morass, quagmire). (various references)

Scottish		boglach (marsh, swamp). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaglibiti (get stuck), močvara (fen, marsh, morass, quagmire, swamp). (various references)

Shona		jahwi. (various references)

Spanish		pantano (dam, Fen, Marsh, morass, moss, quagmire, reservoir, swamp). (various references)

Swazi		li-cháphoti. (various references)

Swedish		träsk (fen, flow, Marsh, morass, sink, Slough, sordidness, swamp), mosse (moss), kärr (fen, marsh, morass, swamp). (various references)

Thai		ห้วย (gully). (various references)

Turkish		bataklık (boggy, everglade, Fen, Marsh, morass, moss, muskeg, quag, quagmire, quicksand, sink, Slough, swamp, swampy), bataklığa gömülmek (bog down), batak (boggy, gutter, in carey street, Marsh, mire, miry, morass, quag, quagmire, quicksand, sink, Slough, swamp), batağa sokmak (bog down), batağa saplanmak (be caught in a quagmire, bog down), çıkmaza girmek (be at bay, come to a deadlock, deadlock, reach on impasse). (various references)

Ukrainian		смішливий, трясовина (mire, morass, quagmire), болото (back water, mire, morass, ooze, quag, quagmire, slew, slue, sump, swamp, wash), болотистий грунт. (various references)

Vietnamese		bãi lầy (morass), vũng lây, đầm lầy (marsh, morass, quag, swamp). (various references)

Welsh		tonnen (skin, sward), siglen (swamp, swing), mignen (quagmire), mign (quagmire), cors (swamp). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	lama, palus. (various references)
Middle Dutch	1100-1500	sudse. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bog": bogan, bogans, bogbean, bogbeans, bogey, bogeyed, bogeying, bogeyman, bogeymen, bogeys, bogged, boggier, boggiest, bogging, boggish, boggle, boggled, boggler, bogglers, boggles, boggling, boggy, bogie, bogies, bogle, bogles, bogs, bogus, bogwood, bogwoods, bogy, bogyism, bogyisms, bogyman, bogymen. (additional references)
	Words containing "bog": cambogia, cambogias, disembogue, disembogued, disembogues, disemboguing, gamboge, gamboges, ibogaine, ibogaines, phlebogram, phlebograms, phlebographic, phlebographies, phlebography, toboggan, tobogganed, tobogganer, tobogganers, tobogganing, tobogganings, tobogganist, tobogganists, toboggans, turbogenerator, turbogenerators. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bog" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abiog, abog, bacg, bagg, bdg, bfg, bgm, bgo, bgp, bho, blog, bloge, bmg, boag, boeg, bof, boga, bogc, boge, bogg, boggo, bogh, Bogi, bogo, bogt, bogu, Boj, bolg, boog, boq, borg, botg, bou, boug, bov, brogl, bsg, Btog, buga, Bugg, bwg, byg, obg, obj, og, Qbo, vog, zog. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bog" (pronounced bÄ"g)
2	-Ä" g	agog, clog, flog, fog, frog, hog, Hogg, jog, pirog, Prolog, slog, smog.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: gob.
	Words within the letters "b-g-o"
	-1 letter: bo, go.
	Words containing the letters "b-g-o"
	+1 letter: bogs, bogy, bong, glob, gobo, gobs, goby.
	+2 letters: befog, begot, bigot, bingo, bogan, bogey, boggy, bogie, bogle, bogus, boing, bongo, bongs, boogy, bough, bourg, globe, globs, goban, gobos, gombo, gumbo.
	+3 letters: bagnio, bandog, barong, beclog, befogs, begone, belong, bigots, bingos, biogas, biogen, bodega, boding, bogans, bogeys, bogged, boggle, bogies, bogles, bonged, bongos, boning, booger, boogey, boogie, booing, borage, boring, boughs, bought, bougie, bourgs, bowing, bowleg, boxing, brogan, brogue, burgoo, bygone, cyborg, dagoba, dorbug, fogbow, gabbro, gabion, gaboon, gambol, gazabo, gazebo, gibbon, gibson, global, globby, globed, globes, globin, gobang, gobans, gobbed, gobbet, gobble, gobies, goblet, goblin, goboes, gobony, gombos, goober, goodby, gumbos, oblige, oblong, orbing, outbeg, pegbox, robing, rubigo.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
bog	196	mud bog racing	9
mud bog	93	bog spavin	9
bog plant	54	bog pond	9
bog turtle	49	bog rosemary	8
the bog people	33	bog oak	8
bog beast	32	bog mud truck	8
bog garden	29	bog boob	7
bog mummy	22	bog by cat	7
cranberry bog	19	bog lots	7
body bog	18	bog chicken recipe	7
the bog golf course	15	2 bog	6
bog filter	15	bog picture turtle	6
bog burn	15	bog brother	6
bog plant water	11	bog garden plant	6
bog chicken	10	bog michigan mud	6
the bog golf	10	bog breed	6
bog gardening	9	bog cock	5
bog peat	9	bog hog	5
berry blue bog	9	bog terrarium	5
bog volo	9	atv bog mud	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bog

Definition: Bog

Bog

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Specialty Definition: Bog

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Bog

BOG

Synonyms: Bog

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Marsh

Uncleanness

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Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

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Devil's Dictionary

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