bog
Betekenis (Engels)
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- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- (slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
- (slang) An act or instance of defecation.
- A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- Chicken bog.
Concepten
Synoniemen
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
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/bɔɡ/
Etymologie (Engels)
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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