Usually means: Wetland area with spongy ground.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bog: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bog, bog, the bog: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bog: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bog: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bog: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bog, bog: Wordnik
  7. bog: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. BOG, bog: Wiktionary
  9. bog: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bog: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bog: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. BOG: Dictionary.com
  13. bog: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bog: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bog (album), Bog (disambiguation), Bog (film), Bog, The Bog: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bog: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bog: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bog: Rhymezone
  19. bog: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bog: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BOG: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. bog: Free Dictionary
  23. bog: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bog: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. bog: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bog: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bog: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bog: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. BoG: Acronym Finder
  2. BOG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. bog: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. bog: Evolution Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bog, bog, bog, bog, bog, bog: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. B.O.G, bog: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. bog: Canadian Soil Information System
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See bogged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; any swamp, marsh or mire.
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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