bog: [13] Bog is of Gaelic origin. It comes from bogach ‘bog’, which was a derivative of the adjective bog ‘soft’. A possible link between Gaelic bog and Old English būgan ‘bend’ (source of modern English bow) has been suggested. The British slang use ‘lavatory’, which dates from the 18th century, appears to be short for the slightly earlier bog-house, which may have been an alteration of the 16th-century boggard – quite possibly completely unrelated to bog ‘swamp’.
bog (n.)
c. 1500, from Gaelic and Irish bogach "bog," from adjective bog "soft, moist," from PIE *bhugh-, from root *bheugh- "to bend" (see bow (v.)). Bog-trotter applied to the wild Irish from 1670s.
bog (v.)
"to sink (something or someone) in a bog," c. 1600, from bog (n.). Intransitive use from c. 1800. Related: Bogged; bogging.
雙語例句
1. "The Bodyguard" is a fairly bog-standard thriller.
《保鏢》是一部毫無新意的驚險(xiǎn)電影。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Don't walk across that field, it's a bog.
不要穿過那片野地, 那是個(gè)爛泥潭.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. You think to be detailed, seeing my data, pleasing see the web page of BOG.
你們想詳細(xì), 看到我的資料, 請看bog網(wǎng)頁.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. We intended from the very beginning to bog the prosecution down over who did this.
我們從一開始就打算延緩對責(zé)任人提出訴訟。
來自柯林斯例句
5. This storm will bog all the cars down in the mud .