English English Dictionary
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of Bog
of Bog
To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.
To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
of Boggle
One who boggles.
of Boggle
Doubtful; skittish.
Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.
of Bogy
A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.
One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.
Living among bogs.
The boce; -- called also bogue bream. See Boce.
To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.
A liquor made of rum and molasses.