bog
To sink or submerge someone or something into boglandTo sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
» Our evidence is no more than a tiny sliver of solid knowledge amidst the vast bog of doubts and speculations.
Наші факти - не більше ніж крихітна скалка міцного знання у розлогому багні сумлівів та спекуляцій.
Meaning
11 senses(often, transitive)To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
(figuratively)To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
(intransitive, often)To sink and stick in bogland.
(figuratively)To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
застреватьzastrevatʹ, увязатьuvjazatʹ
(Australia, intransitive)To defecate, to void one's bowels.
(Australia, transitive)To cover or spray with excrement.
(UK, informal, transitive)To make a mess of something.
(UK, euphemistic, slang, usually)To go away.
(Internet, transitive)To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.
(Internet, reflexive)To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.
(obsolete, transitive)To provoke, to bug.
- get stuck while doing something
- cause to slow down or get stuck
Examples
25 sentencesOur evidence is no more than a tiny sliver of solid knowledge amidst the vast bog of doubts and speculations.
Наші факти - не більше ніж крихітна скалка міцного знання у розлогому багні сумлівів та спекуляцій.
He got bogged down at work.
The talks have become bogged down.
deDie Verhandlungen haben sich festgefahren.
The mud bogged down the truck.
Algeria is bogged down with problems.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Inherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from IrishInherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos.
Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".
From bug off, a clipping of bugger off, likely under the influence of bog (coarse British slang for "toilet[s]").
From an abbreviation of Bogdanoff, in reference to Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff.
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Forms
bogs, bogging, bogged, boggedPhrasal verbs
4 phrasal verbsSynonyms
1 synonymsWord family
7 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle