Definitions for bog

bog bog

Spelling: [bog, bawg]
IPA: /bɒg, bɔg/

Bog is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in bog (bgo).

Definitions for bog

noun

  1. wet, spongy ground with soil composed mainly of decayed vegetable matter.
  2. an area or stretch of such ground.
  3. a lavatory; bathroom.

Verb phrases

  1. bog in, Australian Slang. to eat heartily and ravenously.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to sink in or as if in a bog (often followed by down):

Origin of bog

1495-1505; Irish or Scots Gaelic bogach soft ground (bog soft + -ach noun suffix); (def 4) perhaps a different word

Examples for bog

It's what the newspapers will call a great day for the bog of Allen.

Then after the bog and the potatoes, came funerals and holidays innumerable.

He recalled the scene in the bog, Colonel John's courage, and his thought for his servant.

Intermittent, torrential rain showers turned the rutted, cratered road into a bog of red mud.

There was no light in the cabin, which was a solitary one, standing on the edge of a bog.

The Consumer Financial Protection Agency can bog down any other agency by encumbering agency rules or policies.

I did not hear a word from her about the bog of Ballynascraw.

This is the bog of Allen you're travelling now, and they tell there's not the like of it in the three kingdoms.'

But Rita shuddered again, and begged that she might never hear of the bog again.

The aerial shots were so sharp they could see every bog hole.

Word Value for bog
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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