bog

IPA: bˈɑg

(originally Ireland and Scotland) An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
(figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
(uncountable) The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
(UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
(Australia and New Zealand, slang) An act or instance of defecation.
(US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
(obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.
(obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror. [(entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).]
(military) Initialism of boots on the ground. [Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see boots, on, ground.]

(transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
(figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
(intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
(figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
(intransitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
(transitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To cover or spray with excrement.
(transitive, Britain, informal) To make a mess of something.
(transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.
(euphemistic, slang, Britain, usually with "off") To go away.
(4chan, Internet slang, transitive) To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance. See also botched.
(4chan, Internet slang, reflexive) To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.

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