bog
/bɔɡ/ noun C1- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking. · Near-synonyms: fen, slough, moor
- An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)
- Boggy ground.
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- Chicken bog.
Plural bogs
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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After climbing down from the china wall the travelers found themselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and covered with tall, rank grass.
I saw his head for quite a long time craning out of the bog-hole, but it sucked him down at last.
“Bogs make queer noises sometimes.
It is something to have touched bottom anywhere in this bog in which we are floundering.
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