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▸ noun: (wetland science, specifically) An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)
▸ noun: (uncountable) Boggy ground.
▸ noun: (figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
▸ noun: (UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
▸ noun: (Australia and New Zealand, slang) An act or instance of defecation.
▸ noun: (US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
▸ noun: (US) Chicken bog.
▸ verb: (transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
▸ verb: (figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
▸ verb: (intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
▸ verb: (figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
▸ verb: (intransitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
▸ verb: (transitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To cover or spray with excrement.
▸ verb: (transitive, British, informal) To make a mess of something.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.
▸ verb: (euphemistic, slang, British, usually with "off") To go away.
▸ verb: (4chan, Internet slang, transitive) To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.
▸ verb: (4chan, Internet slang, reflexive) To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror. [(entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).]
▸ noun: (military) Initialism of boots on the ground. [(military, metonymically) The ground forces actually fighting in a war or conflict, rather than troops not engaged or other military action such as air strikes.]
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