bog

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• General-American: bôg
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• General-American: bäg
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• General-American: /bɔɡ/
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• General-American: /bɑɡ/
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• cot-caught-merger: bäg
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• cot-caught-merger: /bɑɡ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: bŏg
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• Received-Pronunciation: /bɒɡ/
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• rhymes with -ɒɡ
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• CMU ARPABET: B AA1 G Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: B AO1 G Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".

Inherited 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. 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.

See bug

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.

108 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: moeras — expanse of marshland
• Afrikaans: vlei — expanse of marshland
• Albanian: zhymë — expanse of marshland
• Azerbaijani: bataq — expanse of marshland
• Azerbaijani: bataqlıq — expanse of marshland
• Azerbaijani: sucuq — expanse of marshland
• Bashkir: һаҙ (haź) — expanse of marshland
• Basque: zohikaztegi — expanse of marshland
• Belarusian: бало́та (balóta) — expanse of marshland
• Bulgarian: бла́то (bláto) — expanse of marshland
• Catalan: aiguamoll — expanse of marshland
• Chinese Mandarin: 沼澤 /沼泽 (zhǎozé) — expanse of marshland
• Czech: rašeliniště — expanse of marshland
• Czech: vrchoviště — expanse of marshland
• Czech: bažina — expanse of marshland
• Czech: močál — expanse of marshland
• Czech: mokřina — expanse of marshland
• Danish: mose — expanse of marshland
• Danish: sump — expanse of marshland
• Dutch: moeras — expanse of marshland
• Dutch: moer — expanse of marshland
• Dutch: zomp — expanse of marshland
• Esperanto: marĉo — expanse of marshland
• Esperanto: marĉejo — expanse of marshland
• Estonian: raba — expanse of marshland
• Estonian: soo — expanse of marshland
• Faroese: mýra — expanse of marshland
• Finnish: suo — expanse of marshland
• Finnish: neva — expanse of marshland
• French: tourbière — expanse of marshland
• Galician: braña — expanse of marshland
• Galician: boedo — expanse of marshland
• Galician: tremedal — expanse of marshland
• Galician: trémbora — expanse of marshland
• German: Hochmoor — expanse of marshland
• Greek: έλος (élos) — expanse of marshland
• Ancient Greek: τέλμα (télma) — expanse of marshland
• Hebrew: ביצה (bitsá) — expanse of marshland
• Hungarian: láp — expanse of marshland
• Hungarian: mocsár — expanse of marshland
• Irish: bogach — expanse of marshland
• Irish: portach — expanse of marshland
• Italian: palude — expanse of marshland
• Italian: torbiera — expanse of marshland
• Japanese: 沼沢 (shōtaku) — expanse of marshland
• Japanese: 沼地 (numachi) — expanse of marshland
• Kumyk: батмакъ (batmaq) — expanse of marshland
• Kumyk: батмакълыкъ (batmaqlıq) — expanse of marshland
• Latin: palūs — expanse of marshland
• Latin: lāma — expanse of marshland
• Latvian: purvs — expanse of marshland
• Latvian: purvājs — expanse of marshland
• Latvian: muklājs — expanse of marshland
• Latvian: staignums — expanse of marshland
• Luxembourgish: Mouer — expanse of marshland
• Macedonian: тресетиште (tresetište) — expanse of marshland
• Macedonian: млачиште (mlačište) — expanse of marshland
• Malayalam: ചതുപ്പ് (catuppŭ) — expanse of marshland
• Manx: curragh — expanse of marshland
• Mongolian: намаг (namag) — expanse of marshland
• Norwegian Bokmål: myr — expanse of marshland
• Norwegian Bokmål: sump — expanse of marshland
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjerr — expanse of marshland
• Norwegian Nynorsk: myr — expanse of marshland
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sump — expanse of marshland
• Persian: خلاش (xalâš) — expanse of marshland
• Polish: torfowisko — expanse of marshland
• Polish: bajoro — expanse of marshland
• Polish: błoto — expanse of marshland
• Portuguese: turfeira — expanse of marshland
• Russian: боло́то (bolóto) — expanse of marshland
• Russian: топь (topʹ) — expanse of marshland
• Sanskrit: पङ्क (paṅka) — expanse of marshland
• Scottish Gaelic: boglach — expanse of marshland
• Serbo-Croatian: tresetište — expanse of marshland
• Shor: сас — expanse of marshland
• Spanish: ciénaga — expanse of marshland
• Spanish: pantano — expanse of marshland
• Spanish: humedal — expanse of marshland
• Swedish: mosse — expanse of marshland
• Swedish: myr — expanse of marshland
• Tagalog: kuminoy — expanse of marshland
• Tagalog: burak — expanse of marshland
• Tagalog: kaburakan — expanse of marshland
• Tagalog: tumok — expanse of marshland
• Thai: หนอง (nɔ̌ɔng) — expanse of marshland
• Tocharian B: kärkkālle — expanse of marshland
• Turkish: bataklık — expanse of marshland
• Ottoman Turkish: باتاق (batak) — expanse of marshland
• Ottoman Turkish: خلاش (hılaş) — expanse of marshland
• Ukrainian: боло́то (bolóto) — expanse of marshland
• Welsh: cors — expanse of marshland
• Welsh: mign — expanse of marshland
• Welsh: siglen — expanse of marshland
• Bulgarian: затъвам (zatǎvam) — become mired or stuck
• Czech: uváznout — become mired or stuck
• Czech: uvíznout — become mired or stuck
• French: s’enliser — become mired or stuck
• Italian: insabbiare — become mired or stuck
• Italian: affossare — become mired or stuck
• Macedonian: се заглави (se zaglavi) — become mired or stuck
• Portuguese: atolar — become mired or stuck
• Russian: застревать (zastrevatʹ) — become mired or stuck
• Russian: увязать (uvjazatʹ) — become mired or stuck
• Spanish: pegado — become mired or stuck
• Bulgarian: оплесквам (opleskvam) — make a mess of something
• Italian: incasinare — make a mess of something
• Macedonian: оплеска (opleska) — make a mess of something