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3-letter words (2 found)

BOG,GOB,

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BO,GO,OB,

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Definitions and meaning of bog

bog

Pronunciation

  • (General American): enPR: bôg, IPA(key): /bɔɡ/
    • (cot–caught merger) enPR: bäg, IPA(key): /bɑɡ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bŏg, IPA(key): /bɒɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Etymology 1

From Middle English bog, 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.

Noun

bog (plural bogs)

  2. (originally Ireland and Scotland) An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
  3. (figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
  4. (uncountable) The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
  6. (UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
    I'm on the bog ― I'm sitting on/using the toilet
    I'm in the bog ― I'm in the bathroom
  7. (Australia and New Zealand, slang) An act or instance of defecation.
  8. (US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
Alternative forms
  • (wet spongy areas or ground): bogg, bogge, boghe (all obsolete)
Synonyms
  • (wet spongy areas or ground): bogland, bogmire, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, peat bog, slough, swamp, swampland, quagmire, wetlands; moss (Scottish); pakihi (NZ); muskeg (Canadian); syrtis, syrt (archaic)
  • (any place or thing that impedes progress): mire, quagmire
  • (toilet): See also Thesaurus:toilet and Thesaurus:bathroom
Hyponyms
  • (small marsh): boglet
Derived terms
Related terms
  • (like a marsh): boggy, boggish
  • (marshy quality): bogginess
  • (to create a marsh): boggify
Translations
See also
  • bog-standard

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
  2. (figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
  3. (intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
  4. (figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
  5. (intransitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
  6. (transitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To cover or spray with excrement.
  7. (transitive, British, informal) To make a mess of something.
Alternative forms
  • bogg, bogue (both obsolete)
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

See bug

Noun

bog (plural bogs)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
Alternative forms
  • bogge; see also bug
Derived terms
  • take bog

Etymology 3

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

Alternative forms

  • (all senses): bug (Derbyshire & Lincolnshire)

Adjective

bog (comparative bogger, superlative boggest)

  1. (obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.
Derived terms
  • boggish, boggishly

Noun

bog (plural bogs)

  1. (obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.
    • 1556, Nicholas Grimald's translation of Cicero as Marcus Tullius Ciceroes Thre Bokes of Duties to Marcus His Sonne, Vol. III, p. 154:
      A Frencheman: whom he [Manlius Torquatus] slew, being bogged [Latin: provocatus] by hym.

Etymology 4

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

Verb

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

  1. (euphemistic, slang, British, usually with "off") To go away.
Derived terms
  • bog off

Etymology 5

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

Verb

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

  1. (4chan, Internet slang, transitive) To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.
  2. (4chan, Internet slang, reflexive) To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.

See also

  • spag bog

References

Anagrams

  • gob

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥ɔ̝ːˀw], [ˈb̥ɔ̝ːwˀ], [ˈb̥ɔ̽wˀ]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bog c (singular definite bogen, plural indefinite bøger)

  1. book
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Maybe from Middle Low German bōk.

Noun

bog c (singular definite bogen, plural indefinite bog)

  1. beechnut, beech mast
Declension
Related terms
  • bogfinke c
  • boghvede c

References

  • “bog” in Den Danske Ordbog

Further reading

  • bog on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
  • Bog (flertydig) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
  • Bog (bøgens nødder) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

French

Noun

bog m (plural bogs)

  1. (ecology) an ombrotrophic peatland
    Antonym: fen

Further reading

  • “bog”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [boːk]

Verb

bog

  1. preterite tense of biegen

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈboɡ]
  • Rhymes: -oɡ

Noun

bog (plural bogok)

  1. knot
    Synonym: csomó

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • bog in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • bog in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish boc (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos.

The verb is from Old Irish bocaid (“to soften”), from the adjective.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /bˠɔɡ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /bˠʌɡ/

Adjective

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

  1. soft (giving way under pressure; lacking strength or resolve; requiring little or no effort; easy)
    Synonym: tláith
  2. flabby (of physical condition)
  3. soft, mellow, gentle (of sound, voice)
  4. (of weather) wet
  5. mild, humid (of winter)
  6. loose
  7. lukewarm
    Synonyms: alabhog, alathe, bogthe

Declension

Derived terms

  • an rud a fhaightear go bog caitear go bog é (“easy come, easy go”)
  • bog- (“soft, mild; nearly; easy”)
  • casacht bhog (“loose cough”)
  • bogearraí (“software”)

Noun

bog m (genitive singular boig)

  1. something soft
  2. (anatomy, of ear) lobe
    Synonyms: liopa, maothán

Declension

Verb

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

  1. soften, become soft; (of pain) ease; (of milk) warm; (of weather) get milder; soften, move (someone's heart)
  2. move, loosen; (of a cradle) rock

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • casacht a bhogadh (“to loosen a cough”)

Mutation

References

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bogъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bɔk]
  • Homophones: Bog, bok

Noun

bog m pers (feminine bogowka)

  1. god

Declension

Derived terms

  • bóžy (“godly, divine”)

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “bog”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “bog”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse bógr, from Germanic.

Noun

bog m (definite singular bogen, indefinite plural boger, definite plural bogene)

  1. shoulder (of an animal)

References

  • “bog” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “bog” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buːɡ/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bog m (plural bogen)

  1. shoulder, primarily of an animal

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bog f (definite singular bogjå)

  1. (dialectal) alternative form of bok

References

  • “bog” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

  • bōh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boːɡ/, [boːɣ]

Noun

bōg m

  1. a branch or bough of a tree
  2. a tendril or sprig of a plant
  3. the arm or shoulder

Declension

Related terms

  • bēag
  • bīeġan
  • bīeġels
  • boga
  • būgan
  • byġe
  • byht
  • ġebīeġednes

Descendants

  • Middle English: boȝ, bogh
    • English: bough
    • Scots: beuch

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [b̊oɡ̊]

Adjective

bog (comparative buige)

  1. soft
  2. wet, damp, moist

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “bog”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 boc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bogъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bôːɡ/

Noun

bȏg m (Cyrillic spelling бо̑г)

  1. god, deity
  2. (colloquial) idol, god

Declension

Derived terms

  • bȍgovskī
  • bogòvskī
  • božànstvo
  • bȍžjī

Related terms

  • Bȏg
  • bògat

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian bog.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bôːɡ/

Noun

bog m

  1. god

Declension

References

  • Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 394

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bogъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bóːk/
  • Hyphenation: bog
  • Homophone: bọ̑k

Noun

bọ̑g m anim (female equivalent bogínja)

  1. god
  2. (uncommon, figuratively) paragon[→SSKJ]
  3. (uncommon, figuratively) highest value[→SSKJ]

Usage notes

The dative singular form bogȗ is mostly limited to the phrase hvála bogȗ.

Declension


Interjection

bọ̑g

  1. god

Derived terms

See also

  • vẹ́ra
  • ateīzəm

Further reading

  • “bog”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • “bog”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buːɡ/

Noun

bog c

  1. shoulder (of an animal)
  2. bow (front of boat or ship)

Declension

Derived terms

  • bogvisir (“bow visor”)

Source: wiktionary.org