bogs
Meaning of bogs
noun
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
- An act or instance of defecation.
- A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- (now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- (now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- (originally vulgar Britain) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- (originally vulgar Britain) To cover or spray with excrement.
- To make a mess of something.
noun
Puffery, boastfulness.
verb
To provoke, to bug.
verb
(usually with "off") To go away.
noun- An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
- Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
- Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.
- Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
- (chiefly computing and engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.
The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 3.
- A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it
He’s got the flu bug.
- An enthusiasm for something; an obsession
I caught the skiing bug while staying in the Alps.
- A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
- A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
We installed a bug in her telephone.
- A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
He suspected the image was a Web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.
- A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising it
Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show.
- A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- A semi-automated telegraph key.
- Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.
- ("the bug") HIV.
- A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
- A trilobite.
- A young apprentice jockey.
noun
A microfossil, particularly a foraminiferan.
Information about bogs
- The singular form of bogs is: bog.
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Hyphenation of bogs
bogs
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- bogs is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
bogs synonyms
Meaning :
mire, quagmire, bogland, bogmire, fen, marsh, marshland, morass, moss, muskeg, slough, swamp, swampland, wetlands, defect, glitch, bog, bogey, boggard, boggle, bogle, bugbear, bug
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