bog

Signification (English)

1. An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
2. Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
3. The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
4. (slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
5. (slang) An act or instance of defecation.
6. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
7. Chicken bog.

marais

marécage

terrain marécageux

w c

quag

scraw bog

the ladies’ room/the mens’ room

the ladies’/the gents’

morning toilet

ombrotrophic raised bog

get bogged

muddy place

sticky mud

W.C.

gate way

swampy ground

fen land

moss-land

turf swamp

gob heading

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bɔɡ/

Inherited from moyen anglais

bog

In summary

Inherited from Middle English bog, 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. The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”). Its use for toilets is now often derived from the resemblance of latrines and outhouse cesspools to bogholes, but the noun sense appears to be a clipped form of boghouse (“outhouse, privy”), which derived (possibly via boggard) from the verb to bog, still used in Australian English. The derivation and its connection to other senses of "bog" remains uncertain, however, owing to an extreme lack of early citations due to its perceived vulgarity.

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