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noun
- 1. wet muddy ground too soft to support a heavy body: "a peat bog"
- 2. a bathroom. informal British
verb
- 1. be or become stuck in mud or wet ground: "the car became bogged down on the beach road"
Learn the meanings and usage of the word bog as a noun and a verb, with synonyms, examples, and etymology. A bog is a wet spongy ground or a British term for a lavatory.
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A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials – often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. [1] It is one of the four main types of wetlands . Other names for bogs include mire , mosses, quagmire, and muskeg ; alkaline mires are called fens .
An area of wet, spongy ground consisting mainly of decayed or decaying peat moss (sphagnum) and other vegetation. Bogs form as the dead vegetation sinks to the bottom of a lake or pond, where it decays slowly to form peat.
A bog is a type of wetland with soft, wet ground or an area of this. It can also mean a toilet in UK slang. Learn more about the word bog and its usage with Cambridge Dictionary.
A bog is a swampy kind of ground made up mostly of decomposing plants and mosses. Nothing can be built on a bog because the ground is so spongy and damp, and no crops can be grown there. The dried soil from a bog can, however, be dried and burned for fuel.
A bog is a wet, spongy area of peat or moss, often with characteristic plants. It can also mean a place or thing that hinders progress or improvement, or a slang term for a toilet.
bog in British English. (bɒɡ ) noun. 1. wet spongy ground consisting of decomposing vegetation, which ultimately forms peat. 2. an area of such ground. 3. a place or thing that prevents or slows progress or improvement.
