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Webster 1913 Edition

Bog

Bog

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bogged
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bogging
.]
To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
At another time, he was
bogged
up to the middle in the slough of Lochend.
Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bog

BOG

,
Noun.
1.
A quagmire covered with grass or other plants. It is defined by marsh, and morass, but differs from a marsh, as a part from the whole. Wet grounds are bogs, which are the softest and too soft to bear a man; marshes or fens, which are less soft, but very wet; and swamps, which are soft spongy land,upon the surface,but sustain man and beast, and are often mowed.
2.
A little elevated spot or clump of earth, in marshes and swamps, filled with roots and grass. [This is a common use of the word in New England.]

BOG

,
Verb.
T.
To whelm or plunge, as in mud and mire.

Definition 2024

bőg

bőg

See also: bog, Bog, BOG, bóg, Bóg, bög, bog-, and Appendix:Variations of "bog"

Hungarian

Verb

bőg

  1. (intransitive) to moo, to cry

Conjugation

References

  1. ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6

Etymology

From an onomatopoeia +‎ -g ‎(“frequentative suffix”). [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbøːɡ]

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