bog. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

bog

PRONUNCIATION:	bôg, bg
NOUN:	1a. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow. b. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog. 2. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.
VERB:	Inflected forms: bogged, bog·ging, bogs
TRANSITIVE VERB:	To cause to sink in or as if in a bog: We worried that the heavy rain across the prairie would soon bog our car. Don't bog me down in this mass of detail.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	To be hindered and slowed.
ETYMOLOGY:	Irish Gaelic bogach, from bog, soft. See bheug- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	boggi·ness —NOUN boggy —ADJECTIVE


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