Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bog
Participle: bogged
Gerund: bogging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bog |
| you | bog |
| he;she;it | bogs |
| we | bog |
| you | bog |
| they | bog |
Perfect
| I | have bogged |
| you | have bogged |
| he;she;it | has bogged |
| we | have bogged |
| you | have bogged |
| they | have bogged |
Past
| I | bogged |
| you | bogged |
| he;she;it | bogged |
| we | bogged |
| you | bogged |
| they | bogged |
Pluperfect
| I | had bogged |
| you | had bogged |
| he;she;it | had bogged |
| we | had bogged |
| you | had bogged |
| they | had bogged |
Future
| I | will bog |
| you | will bog |
| he;she;it | will bog |
| we | will bog |
| you | will bog |
| they | will bog |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bogged |
| you | will have bogged |
| he;she;it | will have bogged |
| we | will have bogged |
| you | will have bogged |
| they | will have bogged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bog |
| you | bog |
| he;she;it | bog |
| we | bog |
| you | bog |
| they | bog |
Perfect
| I | have bogged |
| you | have bogged |
| he;she;it | have bogged |
| we | have bogged |
| you | have bogged |
| they | have bogged |
Imperfect
| I | bogged |
| you | bogged |
| he;she;it | bogged |
| we | bogged |
| you | bogged |
| they | bogged |
Pluperfect
| I | had bogged |
| you | had bogged |
| he;she;it | had bogged |
| we | had bogged |
| you | had bogged |
| they | had bogged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bog |
| you | would bog |
| he;she;it | would bog |
| we | would bog |
| you | would bog |
| they | would bog |
Perfect
| I | would have bogged |
| you | would have bogged |
| he;she;it | would have bogged |
| we | would have bogged |
| you | would have bogged |
| they | would have bogged |
Imperative
| you | bog |
| we | Let's bog |
| you | bog |
Verbs conjugated like 'bog'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bog'
bag,
beg,
big,
blog,
bob,
bong,
boo,
boog,
bop,
borg,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Etymology
1. c.1505, from Gaelic & Irish bogach "bog," from adj. bog "soft, moist," from PIE *bhugh-, from base *bheugh- "to bend." Bog-trotter applied to the wild Irish c.1682.
2. Inherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos.
3. The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”).
4. Its use for toilets is now often derived from the resemblance of latrines and outhouse cesspools to bogholes, but the noun sense appears to be a clipped form of boghouse (“outhouse, privy”), which derived (possibly via boggard) from the verb to bog, still used in Australian English. The derivation and its connection to other senses of "bog" remains uncertain, however, owing to an extreme lack of early citations due to its perceived vulgarity.
Sample Sentences
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To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring. [1928, American Dialect Society, American Speech, volume IV, page 132:]
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[…] Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts […] [1605, Ben Jonson, Seianus His Fall, act IV, scene i, line 217:]
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[…] whose profession to forsake the World... bogs them deeper into the world. [1641, John Milton, Animadversions, page 58:]
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Duncan Graham in Gartmore his horse bogged; that the deponent helped some others to take the horse out of the bogg. [a. 1800, The Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert M'Gregor, Three Sons of the Celebrated Rob Roy, page 120:]