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      bog
      noun
      (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.
      An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
      (wetland science, specifically) An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)
      (uncountable) Boggy ground.
      (figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
      (US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
      (US) Chicken bog.
      (military) Initialism of boots on the ground. [(military, metonymic) The ground forces actually fighting in a war or conflict, rather than troops not engaged or other military action such as air strikes.]
      (banking) Initialism of Bank of Ghana.
      (US politics) Initialism of (Federal Reserve) Board of Governors.
      (obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.
      (obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror. [(entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).]
      verb
      (intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
      (figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
      (transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
      (figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
      (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.
      (euphemistic, slang, British, usually with "off") To go away.
      (4chan, Internet slang, transitive) To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.
      (4chan, Internet slang, reflexive) To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.
      (transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.
      adjective
      (obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.
      Synonyms for bog
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      Words related to bog
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