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語源 1
Inherited from 中期英語 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.
The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”).
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.
名詞
bog (plural bogs)
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
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Synonyms: marsh, swamp, mire
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Coordinate terms: flood meadow, water meadow, callow
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Near-synonyms: fen, slough, moor
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1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii], line 56:
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a. 1687, William Petty, Political Arithmetick:
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Bog may by draining be made Meadow.
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1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
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- (wetland science, specifically) An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)
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2016 December 19, Ralph W. Tiner, Wetland Indicators: A Guide to Wetland Formation, Identification, Delineation, Classification, and Mapping, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 122:
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- (uncountable) Boggy ground.
- (figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
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a. 1796, Robert Burns, Poems & Songs, volume I:
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Last day my mind was in a bog.
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1841, Charles Dickens, chapter LXXII, in Barnaby Rudge, page 358:
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He wandered out again, in a perfect bog of uncertainty.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
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I'm on the bog ― I'm sitting on/using the toilet
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I'm in the bog ― I'm in the bathroom
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1665, Richard Head et al., The English Rogue Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, volume I:
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Fearing I should catch cold, they out of pity covered me warm in a Bogg-house.
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a. 1789, Verses to John Howard F.R.S. on His State of Prisons and Lazarettos, published 1789, page 181:
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...That no dirt... be thrown out of any window, or down the bogs...
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1864, J.C. Hotten, The Slang Dictionary, page 79:
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Bog, or bog-house, a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.
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1959, William Golding, chapter I, in Free Fall, page 23:
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Our lodger had our upstairs, use of the stove, our tap, and our bog.
- (Australia and New Zealand, slang) An act or instance of defecation.
- (US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- (US) Chicken bog.
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2013, James Villas, Southern Fried: More Than 150 Recipes for Crab Cakes, Fried Chicken, Hush Puppies, and More, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 196:
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Damon does emphasize that great red rice should always be fluffy and never mushy like a rice bog.
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2016 October 1, Elliott Moss, Buxton Hall Barbecue's Book of Smoke: Wood-Smoked Meat, Sides, and More, Voyageur Press, →ISBN, page 113:
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I love Chicken Bog because it's one of those very regional recipes that has survived […] Don't skim or otherwise remove the fat from the stock though—it will help flavor the bog. Let the chicken cool and then pick the meat, setting it aside for the bog recipe that follows. The broth will […]
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2018, Ann W Phillips, Lady Of Esterbrooke:
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Chicken and rice bog for their supper so she wouldn't have to cook.
別の表記
- (wet spongy areas or ground): bogg, bogge, boghe (all obsolete)
同意語
- (wet spongy areas or ground): morass. See swamp
- (any place or thing that impedes progress): mire, quagmire, morass
- (toilet): See also Thesaurus:toilet and Thesaurus:bathroom
関連する語
- (like a marsh): boggy, boggish
- (marshy quality): bogginess
- (to create a marsh): boggify
動詞
bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)
- (transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
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1928, American Dialect Society, American Speech, volume IV, page 132:
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To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring.
- (figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
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1605, Ben Jonson, Seianus His Fall, act IV, scene i, line 217:
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[…] Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts […]
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1641, John Milton, Animadversions, page 58:
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[…] whose profession to forsake the World... bogs them deeper into the world.
- (intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
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a. 1800, The Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert M'Gregor, Three Sons of the Celebrated Rob Roy, page 120:
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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.
- (figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- (intransitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- (transitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To cover or spray with excrement.
- (transitive, British, informal) To make a mess of something.
別の表記
- bogg, bogue (both obsolete)
派生語
- bog down
- bogged
- bog in
- bog into
- bog off
- bog up
- de-bogging
- mud bogging
名詞
bog (plural bogs)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
語源 3
Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".
別の表記
- (all senses): bug (Derbyshire & Lincolnshire)
形容詞
bog (comparative bogger, superlative boggest)
- (obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.
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1592, William Warner, chapter XXXVII, in Albions England, volume VII, page 167:
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The Cuckooe, seeing him so bog, waxt also wondrous wroth.
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1691, John Ray, South and East Country Words, page 90:
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Bogge, bold, forward, sawcy. So we say, a very bog Fellow.
名詞
bog (plural bogs)
- (obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.
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1839, Charles Clark, John Noakes and Mary Styles, l. 3:
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Their bog it nuver ceases.
動詞
bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)
- (transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.
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1546, State Papers King Henry the Eighth, volume XI, published 1852, page 163:
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If you had not written to me... we had broke now, the Frenchmen bogged us so often with departing.
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A Frencheman: whom he [Manlius Torquatus] slew, being bogged [Latin: provocatus] by hym.
参照
- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "bog, n.¹" & "bog, v.¹" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1887.
- ^ Oxford Dictionaries. "British English: bog". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2016.
- ↑ The Collins English Dictionary. "bog". HarperCollins (London), 2016.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, "bog, n.⁴"
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, "'bog-house, n." & "† 'boggard, n.²".
- ^ Merriam-Webster Online. "bog". Merriam-Webster (Springfield, Mass.), 2016.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, "bog, v.³"
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary. "† bog | bogge, n.²"
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, "† bog, adj. and n.³" & † bog, v.²".