bogging

Verb

bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)

1. (often, transitive) To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
   • 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
2. (figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
   • […] Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts […]1605, Ben Jonson, Seianus His Fall, act IV, scene i, line 217
3. (intransitive, often) To sink and stick in bogland.
   • 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
4. (figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
5. (Australia, intransitive) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
6. (Australia, transitive) To cover or spray with excrement.

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