bog

«bog» in Mova's school dictionary: an area of soft, wet, spongy ground, often with moss and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bog, bogs); verb (bog down, bogs down, bogged down, bogging down); adjective (boggy)

meaning for a pupil

1) A bog is an area of soft, wet, spongy ground, often with moss and peat, where your feet can sink. tree →

2) (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang) The bog is the toilet: «I need the bog». tree →

3) To get bogged down means to get stuck in mud, or to get stuck in too many details so you cannot move on. tree →

4) (Australia, slang) To bog in means to start eating hungrily or to start work with energy. tree →

5) In Russian, bog means God. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science, bogs are wetlands: peat bogs store huge amounts of carbon and have preserved old things, even «bog bodies» thousands of years old. Ireland has many bogs where people cut turf (peat) for fires. Safety: keep to paths, as bogs can be deep. In everyday British talk, «bog roll» means toilet paper and «bog-standard» means ordinary. Phrases: «peat bog», «bogged down», «bog-standard», «bog roll».

examples

• The path crossed a wide, wet bog. tree →
• Grandad's boots sank into the bog up to his ankles. tree →
• Irish bogs are made of peat that took thousands of years to form. tree →
• Can I go to the bog, sir? (slang) tree →
• We got bogged down in the mud on the way to the farm. tree →
• Don't get bogged down in one hard question — move on and come back. tree →
• It's just a bog-standard phone, nothing special. tree →
• Dinner's ready — bog in! (Australia) tree →
• [116] Bog prostit = God will forgive. tree →

note

Countable: «a bog, bogs». «Bog» for toilet is slang and not polite in class; say «toilet» or «loo». «Bog-standard» is informal UK. The verb is almost always «bog down» or «get bogged down».

In the corpora

• Bogs today show the first step: peat, partly rotted plants that people in Ireland and Scotland cut and burned on their fires.
• Peat is partly rotted plant matter in bogs, the first step towards coal, and was burned for fuel in Ireland and Scotland.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bog» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.