Found 4 items, similar to bog.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: bog
rawa
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: bog
paya, rawa
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bog
bog
n : wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer
drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but
can be cut and dried and used for fuel [syn:
peat bog]
bog
v 1: cause to slow down or get stuck;
“The vote would bog down
the house” [syn:
bog down]
2: get stuck while doing something;
“She bogged down many times
while she wrote her dissertation” [syn:
bog down]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: bog
bog
\bog\ (b[o^]g), n. [Ir. & Gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf.
Ir. bogach bog, moor, marsh, Gael. bogan quagmire.]
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1. A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable
matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to
sink; a marsh; a morass.
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Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit,
Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread.
--R. Jago.
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2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and
grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.]
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Bog bean. See
Buck bean.
Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise),
Bog blitter,
Bog bluiter,
Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.]
Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found
in the peat bogs of Ireland.
Bog earth (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of
silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. --P. Cyc.
Bog moss. (Bot.) Same as
Sphagnum.
Bog myrtle (Bot.), the sweet gale.
Bog ore. (Min.)
(a) An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a
variety of brown iron ore, or limonite.
(b) Bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese.
Bog rush (Bot.), any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.
Bog spavin. See under
Spavin.
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