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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

bog

/(bŏg)/ · IPA /bɔɡ/
01 n. 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.
  1. 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.
    “Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread.” — R. Jago.
  2. 2.
    A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.[Local, U. S.]
Phrases & compounds
Bog bean — See Buck bean.
Bog bumper — the bittern.
Bog butter — a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland.
Bog earth — a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber.
Bog moss — Same as Sphagnum.
Bog myrtle — the sweet gale.
Bog ore — An ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a variety of brown iron ore, or limonite.
Bog rush — any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.
Bog spavin — See under Spavin.
02 v. t. To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
imp. & p. p. Bogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Bogging
  1. 1.
    To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
    “At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend.” — Sir W. Scott.