English-Thai Dictionary

bog

N ห้วย  หนองน้ำ  บึง  marsh huai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOG

n. 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

v.t.To whelm or plunge, as in mud and mire.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BOG

Bog, n. Etym: [Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf. Ir. bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire. ]

 

1. A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.

 

2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] Bog bean. See Buck bean. -- Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise ), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov. ] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- Bog earth (Min. ), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. P. Cyc. -- Bog moss. (Bot. ) Same as Sphagnum. -- Bog myrtle (Bot. ), the sweet gale. -- Bog ore. (Min. ) (a ) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite. (b ) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese. -- Bog rush (Bot. ), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass. -- Bog spavin. See under Spavin.

 

BOG

Bog, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Bogging.]

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

bog

bog |bäg, bôg bɔɡ | ▶noun 1 wet muddy ground too soft to support a heavy body: the island is a wilderness of bog | a peat bog | figurative : a bog of legal complications. • Ecology wetland with acid, peaty soil, typically dominated by peat moss. Compare with fen 1. 2 (usu. the bog ) Brit. informal a bathroom. ▶verb ( bogs, bogging, bogged ) [ with obj. ] (usu. be bogged down ) cause (a vehicle, person, or animal ) to become stuck in mud or wet ground: the car became bogged down on the beach road. • (be bogged down ) (of a person or process ) be unable to make progress: you must not get bogged down in detail. ORIGIN Middle English: from Irish or Scottish Gaelic bogach, from bog ‘soft. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

bog

bog |bɒg | ▶noun 1 an area of wet muddy ground that is too soft to support a heavy body: a peat bog | figurative : a bog of legal complications | [ mass noun ] : the island is a wilderness of bog and loch. • Ecology wetland with acid peaty soil, typically dominated by peat moss. Compare with fen 1. 2 (the bog ) Brit. informal the toilet. ▶verb ( bogs, bogging, bogged ) 1 (be /get bogged down ) be or become stuck in mud or wet ground: the family Rover became bogged down on the beach road. • be prevented from making progress in a task or activity: you must not get bogged down in detail. 2 [ no obj. ] (bog off ) Brit. informal go away. 3 [ no obj. ] (bog in ) Austral. /NZ start a task enthusiastically: if he saw a trucker in difficulty, he would just bog in and give a hand. [early 20th cent.: bog probably in the sense ‘sink, immerse (oneself )’.] ORIGIN Middle English: from Irish or Scottish Gaelic bogach, from bog ‘soft ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

bog

bog noun the bogs were alive with chirring insects and croaking frogs: marsh, swamp, muskeg, mire, quagmire, morass, slough, fen, wetland, bogland. PHRASES bogged down bogged down with endless paperwork: mired, stuck, entangled, ensnared, embroiled; hampered, hindered, impeded, delayed, stalled, detained; swamped, overwhelmed.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

bog

bog noun a peat bog: marsh, marshland, swamp, swampland, sump, mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, carr; salt marsh, saltings, salina; N. Amer. bayou, moor; Scottish & N. English moss. ▶verb PHRASES bog someone /something down many great ideas got bogged down in bureaucracy: mire, stick, trap, entangle, ensnare, embroil, encumber, catch up; hamper, hinder, obstruct, impede, halt, stop, delay, stall, slow down, detain, hold in check, restrain; swamp, overwhelm, overpower, overburden.

 

Duden Dictionary

bog

bog biegen |b o g |

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

bog

bog 1 /bɑɡ |bɔɡ /名詞 1 C U 沼地, 泥沼, 沼 .2 C ｟英俗 ｠便所 (lavatory ).

 

bog

bog 2 動詞 ～s ; ～ged ; ～ging 他動詞 〖通例be ～ged 〗【沼などに 】はまり込む ; ｟比喩的に ｠困難な状況に陥る, 身動きが取れなくなる (down ) «in, into » ▸ The president is bogged down in financial scandals .社長は金銭的なスキャンダルに陥っている 自動詞 沼にはまる, 身動きがとれなくなる .b ò g ó ff ｟英話 ｠〖通例命令形で 〗出ていけ .