bogging

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bog

(bôg, bŏg)

a. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.

b. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.

2. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.

3. Chiefly British Slang A restroom or toilet.

v. bogged, bog·ging, bogs

v.tr.

1. To cause to sink in a bog: The bus got bogged down in the muddy road.

2. To hinder or slow: The project got bogged down in haggling about procedures.

v.intr.

To be hindered and slowed.

[Irish Gaelic bogach, from bog, soft; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]

bog′gi·ness n.

bog′gy adj.

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bogging

(ˈbɒɡɪŋ)

adj

informal Scot filthy; covered in dirt and grime

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Meanwhile my host told me his story, how hard he worked "bogging" for a neighboring farmer, turning up a meadow with a spade or bog hoe at the rate of ten dollars an acre and the use of the land with manure for one year, and his little broad-faced son worked cheerfully at his father's side the while, not knowing how poor a bargain the latter had made.

Before I had reached the pond some fresh impulse had brought out John Field, with altered mind, letting go "bogging" ere this sunset.

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Simon Stratton, 32, got down on one knee in the dirty water and said: "I'm bogging you to be my wife."

I'm bogging you, please be my wife; ROMANCE

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