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bog

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1. bog - Noun

2. bog - Adjective

3. bog - Verb

Meaning

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.

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. Beatrix Potter

I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid. Anthony Burgess

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else. Daniel Keys Moran

You can take a man out of the bog, but you can't take the bog out of the man. Irish Proverb

Every little frog is great in his own bog. Irish Proverb

The frog cannot out of her bog. Italian Proverb

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