n.
- 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.
- Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.
- An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.
v., bogged, bog·ging, bogs. v.tr.
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.
v.intr.
To be hindered and slowed.
[Irish Gaelic bogach, from bog, soft.]
bogginess bog'gi·ness n.boggy bog'gy adj.
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