bogging

bog  (bôg, bg)

n.

1.

a. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.

b. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.

2. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.

v. bogged, bog·ging, bogs

v.tr.

To cause to sink in or as if in a bog: We worried that the heavy rain across the prairie would soon bog our car. Don't bog me down in this mass of detail.

v.intr.

To be hindered and slowed.

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[Irish Gaelic bogach, from bog, soft; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]

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boggi·ness n.

boggy adj.

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bogging [ˈbɒgɪŋ]

adj

Scot informal filthy; covered in dirt and grime