bog

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bog c (singular definite bogen, plural indefinite bøger)

bogen (definite singular)
bøger (indefinite plural)
bog (indefinite nominative singular)
bogen (definite nominative singular)
bøger (indefinite nominative plural)
bøgerne (definite nominative plural)
bogs (genitive indefinite singular)
bogens (definite genitive singular)
bøgers (genitive indefinite plural)
bøgernes (definite genitive plural)

Inherited from Old Norse bók (“beech, book”), from Proto-Germanic *bōks, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech”).


bog

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bog c (singular definite bogen, plural indefinite bog)

bogen (definite singular)
bog (indefinite plural)
bog (indefinite nominative singular)
bogen (definite nominative singular)
bog (indefinite nominative plural)
bogene (definite nominative plural)
bogs (genitive indefinite singular)
bogens (definite genitive singular)
bogs (genitive indefinite plural)
bogenes (definite genitive plural)


bog

Bogs are acidic, nutrient poor, and have a low species diversity, whereas fens are less acidic and have higher nutrient levels and species diversity. Typically, the herbaceous layer in bogs is dominated by sphagnum moss, whereas[…]

1996, Geological Survey (U.S.), National Water Summary on Wetland Resources, →ISBN, page 214:

Bogs are acidic peatlands, characteristic of boreal forests and mountainous regions (Figures 9.3 and 9.4). Their hydrology is precipitation driven as bogs do not receive floodwaters from neighboring rivers and streams[…]

2016 December 19, Ralph W. Tiner, Wetland Indicators: A Guide to Wetland Formation, Identification, Delineation, Classification, and Mapping, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 122:

Bogs are acidic peatlands, while fens are non-acidic peatlands. The thick mat of dead plants forms sphagnum moss and peat, which is where we get our peat moss. Over a long period of time, the bog may fill up and a forest will grow in[…]

2019 February 19, Sincere Humphrey, Freshwater Microbiology, Scientific e-Resources, →ISBN, page 24:

An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; any swamp, marsh or mire.

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

He laughed each time a camel sank down, and he laughed as they strained and pulled and struggled to get the beast on to its clumsy feet again. So sure on sand, so clumsy in bog!

1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 101:

They that ride so... fall into foule Boggs.

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii], line 56:

Certaine... places [in Ireland]... which of their softnes are vsually tearmed Boghes.

1612, John Speed, chapter IV, in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, volume IV, page 143:

Bog may by draining be made Meadow.

a. 1687, William Petty, Political Arithmetick:

[W]e entered a region where the stream widened out and formed a considerable bog.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

[Cedar Bog] is a living museum of plants that once were spread over a far wider area. It is the southernmost such alkaline bog in North America, and teachers take their classes there to study this unique natural area.[…]

1974 02, “Boys' Life”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 21:

You're dancing in quicksand
Why don't you watch where you're wandering?
Why don't you watch where you're stumbling?
You're wading knee deep and going in
And you may never come back again
This bog is thick and easy to get lost in

U-Mos: 'The swamplands of Torvus are treacherous, and can hinder you considerably. Bear this in mind as you move through the bog.'

2004 November 15, Retro Studios, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Nintendo, level/area: Main Energy Controller (Great Temple):

...quagmires and bogges of Romish superstition...

1614, John King, Vitis Palatina, page 30:

Last day my mind was in a bog.

a. 1796, Robert Burns, Poems & Songs, volume I:

He wandered out again, in a perfect bog of uncertainty.

1841, Charles Dickens, chapter LXXII, in Barnaby Rudge, page 358:

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

I'm on the bog ― I'm sitting on/using the toilet

I'm in the bog ― I'm in the bathroom

Fearing I should catch cold, they out of pity covered me warm in a Bogg-house.

1665, Richard Head et al., The English Rogue Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, volume I:

...That no dirt... be thrown out of any window, or down the bogs...

a. 1789, Verses to John Howard F.R.S. on His State of Prisons and Lazarettos, published 1789, page 181:

Bog, or bog-house, a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.

1864, J.C. Hotten, The Slang Dictionary, page 79:

Our lodger had our upstairs, use of the stove, our tap, and our bog.

1959, William Golding, chapter I, in Free Fall, page 23:

(UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.

(Australia and New Zealand, slang) An act or instance of defecation.

(US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

Damon does emphasize that great red rice should always be fluffy and never mushy like a rice bog.

2013, James Villas, Southern Fried: More Than 150 Recipes for Crab Cakes, Fried Chicken, Hush Puppies, and More, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 196:

I love Chicken Bog because it's one of those very regional recipes that has survived […] Don't skim or otherwise remove the fat from the stock though—it will help flavor the bog. Let the chicken cool and then pick the meat, setting it aside for the bog recipe that follows. The broth will[…]

2016 October 1, Elliott Moss, Buxton Hall Barbecue's Book of Smoke: Wood-Smoked Meat, Sides, and More, Voyageur Press, →ISBN, page 113:

Chicken and rice bog for their supper so she wouldn't have to cook.

2018, Ann W Phillips, Lady Of Esterbrooke:

mire

any place or thing that impedes progress

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 derivation and its connection to other senses of "bog" remains uncertain, however, owing to an extreme lack of early citations due to its perceived vulgarity.


bog

To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring.

1928, American Dialect Society, American Speech, volume IV, page 132:

(transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.

[…] Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts […]

1605, Ben Jonson, Seianus His Fall, act IV, scene i, line 217:

[…] whose profession to forsake the World... bogs them deeper into the world.

1641, John Milton, Animadversions, page 58:

(figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.

Duncan Graham in Gartmore his horse bogged; that the deponent helped some others to take the horse out of the bogg.

a. 1800, The Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert M'Gregor, Three Sons of the Celebrated Rob Roy, page 120:

(intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.

(figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.

(intransitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To defecate, to void one's bowels.

(transitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To cover or spray with excrement.

(transitive, British, informal) To make a mess of something.

en-verb

bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)

bogs (present singular third-person)
bogging (participle present)
bogged (participle past)
bogged (past)


bog

(obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.


bog

The Cuckooe, seeing him so bog, waxt also wondrous wroth.

1592, William Warner, chapter XXXVII, in Albions England, volume VII, page 167:

Bogge, bold, forward, sawcy. So we say, a very bog Fellow.

1691, John Ray, South and East Country Words, page 90:

en-adj

bog (comparative bogger, superlative boggest)

bogger (comparative)
boggest (superlative)

Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".


bog

Their bog it nuver ceases.

1839, Charles Clark, John Noakes and Mary Styles, l. 3:


bog

If you had not written to me... we had broke now, the Frenchmen bogged us so often with departing.

1546, State Papers King Henry the Eighth, volume XI, published 1852, page 163:

A Frencheman: whom he [Manlius Torquatus] slew, being bogged [Latin: provocatus] by hym.

1556, Nicholas Grimald's translation of Cicero as Marcus Tullius Ciceroes Thre Bokes of Duties to Marcus His Sonne, Vol. III, p. 154

(transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.


bog

(euphemistic, slang, British, usually with "off") To go away.

From bug off, a clipping of bugger off, likely under the influence of bog (coarse British slang for "toilet[s]").


bog

(4chan, Internet slang, transitive) To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.

My nose is already pretty good and I don't want to bog myself.

2023 August 4, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:

(4chan, Internet slang, reflexive) To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.

From an abbreviation of Bogdanoff, in reference to Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff.


bog

bogok (plural)
bog (nominative singular)
bogok (nominative plural)
bogot (accusative singular)
bogokat (accusative plural)
bognak (dative singular)
bogoknak (dative plural)
boggal (instrumental singular)
bogokkal (instrumental plural)
bogért (causal-final singular)
bogokért (causal-final plural)
boggá (singular translative)
bogokká (plural translative)
bogig (singular terminative)
bogokig (plural terminative)
bogként (essive-formal singular)
bogokként (essive-formal plural)
bogban (inessive singular)
bogokban (inessive plural)
bogon (singular superessive)
bogokon (plural superessive)
bognál (adessive singular)
bogoknál (adessive plural)
bogba (illative singular)
bogokba (illative plural)
bogra (singular sublative)
bogokra (plural sublative)
boghoz (allative singular)
bogokhoz (allative plural)
bogból (elative singular)
bogokból (elative plural)
bogról (delative singular)
bogokról (delative plural)
bogtól (ablative singular)
bogoktól (ablative plural)
bogé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
bogoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
bogéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
bogokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
bogom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
bogaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
bogod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
bogaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
boga (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
bogai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
bogunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
bogaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
bogotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
bogaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
boguk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
bogaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *poŋka (“knot, knob, protuberance, unevenness”). Cognates include Estonian pung.


bog

soft (giving way under pressure; lacking strength or resolve; requiring little or no effort; easy)

Waves gently lap against the rocks below.

2015 [2014], Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh, Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea (in English), →ISBN, page 2:

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bog (genitive singular masculine boig, genitive singular feminine boige, plural boga, comparative boige)

boig (genitive masculine singular)
boige (feminine genitive singular)
boga (plural)
boige (comparative)
nominative (positive)
bog (masculine singular)

an rud a fhaightear go bog caitear go bog é

Inherited from Old Irish boc (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos.
The verb is from Old Irish bocaid (“to soften”), from the adjective.


bog

boig (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
bog (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a bhoig (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
boig (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an bog (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
an bhoig (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an mbog (definite singular)
don bhog (definite singular)


bog

soften, become soft; (of pain) ease; (of milk) warm; (of weather) get milder; soften, move (someone's heart)

bog (present analytic bogann, future analytic bogfaidh, verbal noun bogadh, past participle bogtha)

bogann (analytic present)
bogfaidh (analytic future)
bogadh (noun-from-verb)
bogtha (participle past)
bogaim (first-person indicative present singular)
bogann tú (indicative present second-person singular)
bogair (indicative present second-person singular)
bogann sé (indicative present singular third-person)
sí (indicative present singular third-person)
bogaimid (first-person indicative plural present)
bogann sibh (indicative plural present second-person)
bogann siad (indicative plural present third-person)
bogaid (indicative plural present third-person)
a bhogann (indicative present relative)
a bhogas (indicative present relative)
a mbogann (indicative present relative)
bogtar (autonomous indicative present)
bhog mé (first-person indicative past singular)
bhogas (first-person indicative past singular)
bhog tú (indicative past second-person singular)
bhogais (indicative past second-person singular)
bhog sé (indicative past singular third-person)
sí (indicative past singular third-person)
bhogamar (first-person indicative past plural)
bhog muid (first-person indicative past plural)
bhog sibh (indicative past plural second-person)
bhogabhair (indicative past plural second-person)
bhog siad (indicative past plural third-person)
bhogadar (indicative past plural third-person)
a bhog (indicative past relative)
ar bhog (indicative past relative)
bogadh (autonomous indicative past)
bhogainn (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
mbogainn‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past singular)
bhogtá (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
mbogtá‡‡ (habitual indicative past second-person singular)
bhogadh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
mbogadh sé (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
sí‡‡ (habitual indicative past singular third-person)
bhogaimis (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
bhogadh muid (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
mbogaimis‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
mbogadh muid‡‡ (first-person habitual indicative past plural)
bhogadh sibh (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
mbogadh sibh‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural second-person)
bhogaidís (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
bhogadh siad (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
mbogaidís‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
mbogadh siad‡‡ (habitual indicative past plural third-person)
a bhogadh (habitual indicative past relative)
a mbogadh (habitual indicative past relative)
bhogtaí (autonomous habitual indicative past)
mbogtaí‡‡ (autonomous habitual indicative past)
bogfaidh mé (first-person future singular)
bogfad (first-person future singular)
bogfaidh tú (future second-person singular)
bogfair (future second-person singular)
bogfaidh sé (future singular third-person)
sí (future singular third-person)
bogfaimid (first-person future plural)
bogfaidh muid (first-person future plural)
bogfaidh sibh (future plural second-person)
bogfaidh siad (future plural third-person)
bogfaid (future plural third-person)
a bhogfaidh (future relative)
a bhogfas (future relative)
a mbogfaidh (future relative)
bogfar (autonomous future)
bhogfainn (conditional first-person singular)
mbogfainn‡‡ (conditional first-person singular)
bhogfá (conditional second-person singular)
mbogfá‡‡ (conditional second-person singular)
bhogfadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí (conditional singular third-person)
mbogfadh sé (conditional singular third-person)
sí‡‡ (conditional singular third-person)
bhogfaimis (conditional first-person plural)
bhogfadh muid (conditional first-person plural)
mbogfaimis‡‡ (conditional first-person plural)
mbogfadh muid‡‡ (conditional first-person plural)
bhogfadh sibh (conditional plural second-person)
mbogfadh sibh‡‡ (conditional plural second-person)
bhogfaidís (conditional plural third-person)
bhogfadh siad (conditional plural third-person)
mbogfaidís‡‡ (conditional plural third-person)
mbogfadh siad‡‡ (conditional plural third-person)
a bhogfadh (conditional relative)
a mbogfadh (conditional relative)
bhogfaí (autonomous conditional)
mbogfaí‡‡ (autonomous conditional)
go mboga mé (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go mbogad (first-person present singular subjunctive)
go mboga tú (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go mbogair (present second-person singular subjunctive)
go mboga sé (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (present singular subjunctive third-person)
go mbogaimid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go mboga muid (first-person plural present subjunctive)
go mboga sibh (plural present second-person subjunctive)
go mboga siad (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go mbogaid (plural present subjunctive third-person)
go mbogtar (autonomous present subjunctive)
dá mbogainn (first-person past singular subjunctive)
dá mbogtá (past second-person singular subjunctive)
dá mbogadh sé (past singular subjunctive third-person)
sí (past singular subjunctive third-person)
dá mbogaimis (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá mbogadh muid (first-person past plural subjunctive)
dá mbogadh sibh (past plural second-person subjunctive)
dá mbogaidís (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá mbogadh siad (past plural subjunctive third-person)
dá mbogtaí (autonomous past subjunctive)
bogaim (first-person imperative singular)
bog (imperative second-person singular)
bogadh sé (imperative singular third-person)
sí (imperative singular third-person)
bogaimis (first-person imperative plural)
bogaigí (imperative plural second-person)
bogaidh (imperative plural second-person)
bogaidís (imperative plural third-person)
bogtar (autonomous imperative)
bogadh (noun-from-verb)
bogtha (participle past)
bog
bhog
mbog


bog

bogowka (feminine)
bog (nominative singular)
boga (dual nominative)
bogi (nominative plural)
boga (genitive singular)
bogowu (dual genitive)
bogow (genitive plural)
bogoju (dative singular)
bogoma (dative dual)
bogam (dative plural)
boga (accusative singular)
bogowu (accusative dual)
bogi (accusative plural)
bogow (accusative plural)
bogom (instrumental singular)
bogoma (dual instrumental)
bogami (instrumental plural)
bogu (locative singular)
bogoma (dual locative)
bogach (locative plural)


bog

bogen (definite singular)
boger (indefinite plural)
bogene (definite plural)

From Danish boug, older spelling of bov, from Old Norse bógr, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz. The pronunciation is based on native Norwegian dialects.


bog

Inherited from Old Norse bógr, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰús.


bog

Takk for bogjå

1996, Tobias Skretting, Attemed ånå, page 90:

Eg kan nok bli frelst etter bogjå, men ikkje ette det vonde hjerta mitt.

1957, Reinert Ersdal, quoting Andreas Mjaasund, Bakke kyrkje: Krosskyrkja 200 år, [Flekkefjord]: [Soknerådet?]:

I might be saved by the book, but not by my evil heart.

Inherited from Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.


bog

bōg (canonical masculine)
bōg (nominative singular)
bōgas (nominative plural)
bōg (accusative singular)
bōgas (accusative plural)
bōges (genitive singular)
bōga (genitive plural)
bōge (dative singular)
bōgum (dative plural)

Middle English: boȝ, bogh

English: bough

Scots: beuch

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *bōguz. Cognate with Old Saxon bōg, Old High German buog, Old Norse bógr.


bog

buige (comparative)
bog (masculine nominative singular)
bhog (feminine nominative singular)
boga (nominative plural)
bhuig (masculine singular vocative)
bhog (feminine singular vocative)
boga (plural vocative)
bhuig (genitive masculine singular)
bhuig (feminine genitive singular)
buige (feminine genitive singular)
bog (genitive plural)
boga (genitive plural)
bhog (dative masculine singular)
bhuig (dative feminine singular)
boga (dative plural)
bog
bhog

Inherited from Old Irish boc (“soft, gentle, tender; tepid”).


bog

bȏg (canonical masculine)
бо̑г (Cyrillic)
bȏg (nominative singular)
bògovi (nominative plural)
bȍzi (nominative plural poetic regional)
bȍga (genitive singular)
bògōvā (genitive plural)
bȏgā (genitive plural poetic regional)
bȍgu (dative singular)
bògovima (dative plural)
bȍzima (dative plural poetic regional)
bȍga (accusative singular)
bògove (accusative plural)
bȍge (accusative plural poetic regional)
bȍže (singular vocative)
bògovi (plural vocative)
bȍzi (plural poetic regional vocative)
bȍgu (locative singular)
bògovima (locative plural)
bȍzima (locative plural poetic regional)
bȍgom (instrumental singular)
bògovima (instrumental plural)
bȍzima (instrumental plural poetic regional)


bog

bog (nominative singular)
boga (nominative plural)
boga (genitive singular)
bog (genitive plural)
bogi (genitive plural)
bogu (dative singular)
bogami (dative plural)
bogi (dative plural)
bog (accusative singular)
boga (accusative singular)
boga (accusative plural)
bogu (locative singular)
boga (locative plural)
bogom (instrumental singular)
bogam (instrumental singular)
bogami (instrumental plural)
bogi (instrumental plural)


bog

(uncommon, figuratively) highest value^([→SSKJ])

bọ̑g (animate canonical masculine)
bogínja (feminine)
bọ̑g (nominative singular)
bogȏva (dual nominative)
bogȃ (dual nominative)
bogȏvi (nominative plural)
bogȃ (genitive singular)
bogóv (dual genitive)
bogóv (genitive plural)
bọ̑gu (dative singular)
bọ̑gi (dative singular)
bogȗ (dative singular)
bogȏvoma (dative dual)
bogȏvama (dative dual)
bogȏvom (dative plural)
bọ̑gȏvam (dative plural)
bogȃ (accusative singular)
bogȏva (accusative dual)
bogȃ (accusative dual)
bogȏve (accusative plural)
bọ̑gu (locative singular)
bọ̑gi (locative singular)
bogȏvih (dual locative)
bogȏvih (locative plural)
bọ̑gom (instrumental singular)
bogȏvoma (dual instrumental)
bogȏvama (dual instrumental)
bogȏvi (instrumental plural)
bọ̑g (singular vocative)
bogȏva (dual vocative)
bogȃ (dual vocative)
bogȏvi (plural vocative)

sl-infl-noun

no


bog

dati cesarju, kar je cesarjevega, in bogu, kar je božjega


bog

Inherited from Old Swedish bōgher, from Old Norse bógr, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰāǵʰus.