Bag vs. Bog

Bagnoun

A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.

Bagnoun

(informal) A handbag

Bagnoun

A suitcase.

Bagnoun

A schoolbag, especially a backpack.

Bagnoun

One’s preference.

Bagnoun

(derogatory) An ugly woman.

Bagnoun

(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

Bagnoun

(baseball) First, second, or third base.

Bagnoun

(preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

Bagnoun

(mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

Bagnoun

A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

Bagnoun

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

Bagnoun

The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

Bagnoun

A scrotum.

Bagnoun

(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

Bagverb

To put into a bag.

Bagverb

(informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

Bagverb

To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

Bagverb

(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

Bagverb

To bring a woman one met on the street with one.

Bagverb

To laugh uncontrollably.

Bagverb

To criticise sarcastically.

Bagverb

(medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

Bagverb

To swell or hang down like a full bag.

Bagverb

To hang like an empty bag.

Bagverb

To swell with arrogance.

Bagverb

To become pregnant.

Bagnoun

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

Bagnoun

A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

Bagnoun

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

Bagnoun

The quantity of game bagged.

Bagnoun

A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.

Bagverb

To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

Bagverb

To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

Bagverb

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.

Bagverb

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

Bagverb

To swell with arrogance.

Bagverb

To become pregnant.

Bagnoun

a flexible container with a single opening;

Bagnoun

the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person);

Bagnoun

place that runner must touch before scoring;

Bagnoun

a bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women);

Bagnoun

the quantity that a bag will hold;

Bagnoun

a portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;

Bagnoun

an ugly or ill-tempered woman;

Bagnoun

mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

Bagnoun

an activity that you like or at which you are superior;

Bagverb

capture or kill, as in hunting;

Bagverb

hang loosely, like an empty bag

Bagverb

bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

Bagverb

take unlawfully

Bagverb

put into a bag;

Bag

A bag (also known regionally as a sack) is a common tool in the form of a non-rigid container. The use of bags predates recorded history, with the earliest bags being no more than lengths of animal skin, cotton, or woven plant fibers, folded up at the edges and secured in that shape with strings of the same material.Despite their simplicity, bags have been fundamental for the development of human civilization, as they allow people to easily collect loose materials such as berries or food grains, and to transport more items than could readily be carried in the hands.

Bognoun

An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.

Bognoun

(figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.

Bognoun

(uncountable) The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.

Bognoun

A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.

Bognoun

An act or instance of defecation.

Bognoun

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

Bognoun

(obsolete) nodot=1: a bugbear, monster, or terror.

Bognoun

(obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.

Bogverb

To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.

Bogverb

(figuratively) to prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.

Bogverb

To sink and stick in bogland.

Bogverb

(figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.

Bogverb

To defecate, to void one's bowels.

Bogverb

To cover or spray with excrement.

Bogverb

To make a mess of something.

Bogverb

To provoke, to bug.

Bogverb

To go away.

Bogadjective

(obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.

Bognoun

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

Bognoun

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

Bogverb

To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

Bognoun

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

Bogverb

cause to slow down or get stuck;

Bogverb

get stuck while doing something;

Bognoun

an area of wet muddy ground that is too soft to support a heavy body

Bognoun

wetland with acid peaty soil, typically dominated by peat moss.

Bognoun

the toilet.

Bogverb

be or become stuck in mud or wet ground

Bogverb

be prevented from making progress in a task or activity

Bogverb

go away

Bogverb

start a task enthusiastically

Bog

A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands.