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Plural of bog

regular plural

The plural of bog is bogs.

Forms of bog

Singularbog /bɔɡ/
Pluralbogs
Countableusually uncountable

Bogs in a sentence

  • Shell sand is a useful manure for clay soils, heavy loams, and newly reclaimed bogs.From the entry shell sand
  • These basin bogs are generally associated with Picea mariana or are treeless.2013 March 9, Dennis F. Whigham, D. Dykyjová, S. Hejný, Wetlands of the World I: Inventory, Ecology and Management, Springer Science &…. From the entry palsa
  • I get to know some other girls while waiting to use the bogs.2005, Valerie Mason-John, Borrowed Body, page 225. From the entry the bogs
  • The play bogs down in narrative as we watch Max and Rudy flee Berlin.1979 December 22, Andy Beck, “BENT: To Remind, To Instruct, To Warn”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 11. From the entry bog down
  • With financial backing from the European Union, Ireland is also seeking to rehabilitate and protect thousands of acres of raised bogs.2022 October 4, Ed O’Loughlin, “Protecting the Peatlands of Ireland as Fuel Costs Skyrocket”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry rewet

Meaning of bog

  1. noun An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
  2. noun An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.).
  3. noun Boggy ground.

Full definition of bog

Questions about the plural of bog

What is the plural of bog?
The plural of bog is bogs.
Is bog countable?
Bog is usually an uncountable noun; its plural is used for kinds or examples of it.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bog (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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