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  1. (noun) An expanse of marshland.
  2. (noun, Irish, UK, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A toilet.
  3. (verb, intransitive, informal) To become (figuratively or literally) mired or stuck.
  4. (verb, transitive, UK, informal) To make a mess of something.
  5. (verb, euphemism, slang, UK, with "off") To go away.
  6. (Croatian, Lower Sorbian, Slovene, noun) god
  7. (Croatian, noun, colloquial) idol, god
  8. (Danish, noun) book
  9. (Danish, noun) beech mast
  10. (French, noun, ecology) An ombrotrophic peatland.
  11. (German, verb) past tense of biegen.
  12. (Hungarian, noun) knot
  13. (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, adjective) soft
  14. (Irish, adjective) loose
  15. (Irish, adjective) lukewarm
  16. (Irish, verb) to move
  17. (Norwegian, noun) shoulder (of an animal)
  18. (Old English, noun) the arm or shoulder
  19. (Old English, noun) a branch or bough of a tree
  20. (Scottish Gaelic, adjective) wet, damp, moist

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (soft, boggy ground) from bog (soft)

Noun

Singular
bog

Plural
bogs

bog (plural bogs)

  1. An expanse of marshland.
  2. (Irish, UK, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A toilet.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

Infinitive
to bog

Third person singular
bogs

Simple past
bogged

Past participle
bogged

Present participle
bogging

to bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)

  1. (intransitive, informal) To become (figuratively or literally) mired or stuck.
  2. (transitive, UK, informal) To make a mess of something.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

by shortening and euphemistic alteration from bugger

Verb

Infinitive
to bog

Third person singular
bogs

Simple past
bogged

Past participle
bogged

Present participle
bogging

to bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)

  1. (euphemism, slang, UK, with "off") To go away.
Derived terms

Anagrams



Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bɔːg/,

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bók (beech, book), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂go- (beech).

Noun

bog c. (singular definite bogen, plural indefinite bøger)

  1. book
Derived terms
Inflection

Etymology 2

Maybe from Middle Low German bōk.

Noun

bog c. (singular definite bogen, plural indefinite bog)

  1. beech mast
Inflection

French

Noun

bog m. (plural bogs)

  1. (ecology) An ombrotrophic peatland.

Antonyms


German

Pronunciation

Verb

bog

  1. past tense of biegen.



Hungarian

Etymology

From the same Finno-Ugric root *pengke as Estonian pung

Pronunciation

Noun

bog (plural bogok)

  1. knot



Irish

Pronunciation

Adjective

bog

  1. soft
  2. loose
  3. lukewarm

Declension

Usage notes

  • (archaic) Dative feminine singular: boig

Verb

bog

  1. to move

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bog bhog mbog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bogъ.

Noun

bog m.

  1. god

Norwegian

Noun

bog m.

  1. shoulder (of an animal)

Inflection


Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *boguz. Cognate with Old Saxon bōg (Dutch boeg (shoulders, chest of a horse)), Old High German buog (German horse’s hock, ship’s prow), Old Norse bógr (Icelandic bógur, Swedish bog (shoulder)).

Pronunciation

Noun

bōg n. (plural bōg)

  1. the arm or shoulder
  2. a branch or bough of a tree

Descendants

Scots: beuch


Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Adjective

bog (comparative and superlative forms buige)

  1. soft
  2. wet, damp, moist

Declension

Forms without the definite article:

Case Masculine singular Feminine singular Plural
Nominative bog bhog boga
Vocative bhuig bhog boga
Genitive bhuig bhuig/buige boga/bhoga
Dative bhog bhuig boga/bhoga

Derived terms


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bogъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

bȏg m. (Cyrillic spelling бо̑г)

  1. god
  2. (colloquial) idol, god

Declension

Derived terms



Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bogъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

bóg m. (dual bogova, plural bogovi) animate

  1. god

Declension