bog | (noun) wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel | Synonyms: peat bog |
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(verb) cause to slow down or get stuck | Synonyms: bog down |
(verb) get stuck while doing something | Synonyms: bog down |
bogbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, buckbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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bogey | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogie, bogy |
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(noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogie, bogy |
(noun) (golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole | - |
(verb) to shoot in one stroke over par | - |
bogeyman | (noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: booger, boogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear |
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bogginess | (noun) The state or quality of being too wet and muddy to be easily walked on. | - |
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boggle | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: bowl over, flabbergast |
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(verb) startle with amazement or fear | - |
(verb) hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear | - |
boggy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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bogie | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogey, bogy |
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(noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogey, bogy |
bogmat | (noun) having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America | Synonyms: mud midget, Wolffiella gladiata |
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bogus | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, fake, phoney, phony |
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bogy | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogey, bogie |
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(noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogey, bogie |
gamboge | (noun) a strong yellow color | Synonyms: lemon, lemon yellow, maize |
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(noun) a gum resin used as a yellow pigment and a purgative | - |
phlebogram | (noun) an X ray of a vein injected with a radiopaque contrast medium | Synonyms: venogram |
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toboggan | (noun) a long narrow sled without runners; boards curve upward in front | - |
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(verb) move along on a luge or toboggan | Synonyms: luge |
tobogganing | (noun) riding on a long light sled with low handrails | - |
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tobogganist | (noun) someone who rides a toboggan | - |
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turbogenerator | (noun) generator consisting of a steam turbine coupled to an electric generator for the production of electric power | - |
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