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Noun: bog  bóg
  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
    - peat bog
     
  2. [Brit, informal] A room or building equipped with one or more toilets
    - toilet, lavatory, lav [informal], can [N. Amer, informal], john [informal], bathroom, water closet [Brit, archaic], closet [archaic], W.C. [Brit], loo [Brit, informal], jacks [Ireland, informal]
Verb: bog (bogged,bogging)  bóg
  1. Cause to slow down or get stuck
    "The vote would bog down the house";
    - bog down
     
  2. Get stuck while doing something
    "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation";
    - bog down

Derived forms: bogs, bogging, bogged

Type of: break, break off, discontinue, room, slow, slow down, slow up, stop, wetland

Encyclopedia: Bog, Westmoreland, Jamaica