a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 236 Chassand cattell throu a bog.

a1552 J. Leland De Rebus Brit. Collectanea (1715) I. ii. 545 They..fledde alle, and levyng theyr Horses, tooke the Marresis, or Bogges.

1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. iv. iv. 143/1 Certaine..places [of Ireland]..which of their softnes are vsually tearmed Boghes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vii. 56 They that ride so..fall into foule Boggs . View more context for this quotation

1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 34 The Country of Ireland is full of boggs on the ground and mists in the aire.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 592 That Serbonian Bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where Armies whole have sunk. View more context for this quotation

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The inconveniences of bogs are, that..they are a great destruction to cattle.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 114 The trembling bog and false morass.

1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. ii. iii. 331 These bogs are included under the general designation of the Bog of Allen.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) 2 Bog may by draining be made Meadow.

1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. i. ii. 288 A large extent of hill pasture, moor, and bog.

1861 Times 29 Aug. Long brown gaps of stagnant-looking bog, where the piles of neatly-cut turf were stacked out in rough black cones.

1614 Bp. J. King Vitis Palatina 30 Quagmires and bogges of Romish superstition.

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 343 Last day my mind was in a bog.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxii. 358 He wandered out again, in a perfect bog of uncertainty.

1878 J. Morley Diderot I. 331 The Serbonian bog of dramatic rules.

1881 G. Allen in Academy 13 Aug. 113/3 A little marsh..made room for bog-asphodel.

1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 47 The bog-pimpernel..was profusely strewn over the spongy moors.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 182 Marsh-Trefoil or Bog-bean will discover itself to you immediately.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 7 What the bog-bean and wood-sage are good for.

1858 E. Twining Short Lect. Plants 345 Our marsh Bog-bean which I described to you as an intensely bitter herb.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. 297/1 Bogberries, Vaccinium.

1892 J. Barlow Irish Idylls viii. 217 She made a feint of looking for bogberries.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 493 Sphagnum, or Bog-moss, has the capsule covered with a lid.

1840 Florist's Jrnl. Dec. 208 Covered over with dry sphagnum, or bog moss.

1959 J. Clegg Freshwater Life Brit. Isles (ed. 2) iii. 63 Of the mosses, the most important are the species of Bog Mosses (Sphagnum)..which form soft carpets of vegetation in the damp areas.

1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 290 Bonnets with a black cock's tail and bog-myrtle.

1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 120 The Brake, of which there are several varieties, the root of which is sometimes called the ‘bog-onion’.

1856 Phytologist 5 30 Osmunda regalis..is vulgarly known under the name of ‘bog onion’.

1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Dial. Cumberland (ed. 2) 9/1 Bog onion, the Osmunda Regalis or flowering fern.

1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 5 104 Arisæma triphyllum, bog onion. Worcester Co.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. 315/1 Rush, Round black-headed, Marsh or Bog, Schœnus.

1843 J. Torrey Flora State N.Y. II. 325 Juncus effusus..Bog-rush.

1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 295 Lesser Bog Rush, or Little Bulbous Rush.

1898 C. M. Yonge John Keble's Parishes xvi. 231 Bogrush (L. campestris).—Little rush.

1713 J. Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Bog Violet.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. i. 8 The deep cry of the bog-blitter, or bull-of-the bog.

1866 Inverness Courier 4 Jan. The bittern of British Zoology; provincially the bog-bumper and mire-drum.

1863 H. Watts Dict. Chem. I. 617 Bog-butter, a fatty substance found in the peat-bogs of Ireland.

1857 Parsons in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 50 398 This is called bog-oak, or bog deal, well known to country people in many places.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. IV. xlvii. 348 Touch the needle with a piece of bog-down, or a cork ball.

1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Oct. 5 Cloth made of bog-down (Anglice, cotton grass).

1787–8 Bot. Mag. 2 46 Soil, a mixture of loam and bog earth.

1770 D. Barrington in Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 33 Why these bog-firs may be found in places where there is no such tree at present.

1883 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden p. lxiii/1 A more perfect bog garden is made by forming a basin of brickwork and Portland cement, about one foot in depth.

1908 R. J. Farrer Alpines & Bog-plants 154 The prime..necessity of the bog-garden is the most perfect drainage.

1788 Minor (London ed.) II. iii. iii. 14 He and his horse had bounced into a bog-hole.

1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home i. 15 Down came our good horse to the very chin in a bog-hole.

1936 P. Fleming News from Tartary iii. vi. 138 Slippery flats, pitted with bog-holes.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 76 Large quantities of black ram (i.e. bog iron) are found dispersed through all the moors and low-grounds.

1789 A. Mills in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 89 Bog iron ore is met with in the mosses.

1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved 160 I verily beleeve, were all the Bog-Lands in England thus Planted, and Husbandred well,..might raise Wood enough to maintaine a great part of this Nation in Firing.

1690 J. Dryden in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Prophetess Prol. sig. A4^v Each brings his Love, a Bogland Captive home.

1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. June v. 47 A proper Plough to plow Bog-lands.

1940 L. MacNeice Last Ditch 9 The night came down upon the bogland.

1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Bog-Landers, a Nick-name given Irish-men.

1755 W. Moffet Irish Hudib. A bunch of three-leaved grass Called by the boglanders shamrogues.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Bog latin, (Irish) barbarous latin.

1891 Sampson in Jrnl. Gypsy Lore Soc. II. 206 Like all true citizens of the road, the tinkers protect themselves by the use of a secret language, variously known as Shelta, Sheldrū, Shīldru, Shelter, and Shelteroχ, ‘Bog Latin’, ‘Tinkers' Cant’, or ‘the Ould Thing’.

1927 J. Joyce Let. 20 May (1957) 254 Dulce et decorum est prope mare sedere—boglatin for it is a sweet and seemly thing to sit down by the sea.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 200 Wad, or Bog Manganese, is the old English name of the hydrated peroxide of manganese.

1590 R. Payne Briefe Descr. Ireland (1841) 6 There is..greate plentie of Iron stone, and one sort more than we have in England, which they call Bogge myne.

1764 J. Eliot in Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 56 Add some bog mine ore, which abounds with cinder.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 32 They slew my men, and tooke me prisoner in a Bogmire.

1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 414 When brought to the decayed condition of bog-mould, or rich earth.

1813 M. Edgeworth Let. 24 Oct. in S. H. Romilly Romilly-Edgeworth Lett. (1936) 60 This necklace, and bracelets, are genuine Irish—made of bog-oak—that is, of oak found in our bogs.

1940 L. MacNeice Last Ditch 9 Stumps of hoary bog-oak.

1772 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 219 That species of iron called bog-ore.

a1820 D. McClure Diary (1899) 131 The country abounds with sand or bog oar.

1840 in Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. (1855) 6 278 Deposites of bog ore occur in limited quantities in many places.

1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxxv. 336 A torch made of bog-pine.

1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xv. 120 His Stable is a very shop of all diseases; Glanders, Yellowes..Bogspavings, with a Myriad more.

1802 D. P. Blaine Outl. Vet. Art II. 653 Bog Spavin. This is only a bursal enlargement of the mucous capsule on the inner side of the hock.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 52 These morasses are found frequently to abound with bog-timber.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 117 A piece of lighted bog-wood which he carried in a lantern.

1883 Longman's Mag. iii. 48 A generation ago the old art of carving bog-wood was revived in Dublin.

1527 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 206 Against whom..it shal not a litel conferre, that this man be a bogge.

1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 226 Men who make no conscience of a Lye, doe yet take some bogge at an Oath.

1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 6 Farewel Bogg.

?1731 ‘Hurlo Thrumbo’ Merry-thought: Pt. 2 1 In Trinity-College Bogs.

1789 J. Howard Acct. Lazarettos Europe 181 That no dirt..be thrown out of any window, or down the bogs.

1803 Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 21 Bogs, ‘that place where men of studious minds are apt to sit longer than ordinary.’ (Pope's Letters.)—The house appointed for all living. The small and the great go there.

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 79 Bog, or bog-house, a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.

1929 H. Williamson Beautiful Years xxiii. 165 His headquarters are in The Bog,..where the kids go and hide, locking themselves in when they think those cads are after them.

1959 W. Golding Free Fall i. 23 Our lodger had our upstairs, use of the stove, our tap and our bog.

1960 New Left Rev. May 61/1 Toilet paper in the bogs.

2004 H. Walsh Brass x. 273 I'm sat on the bog with an empty bladder and my head hung between my legs and the cubicle is spinning.

1982 A. Barr & P. York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 138/1 A huge, hairy lavatory brush, an amusing object to the Sloane mind. They are always saying that a friend's hair or dog looks like a bog brush.

1994 Guardian 2 Sept. a3 David Lynch's Eraserhead character whittled to sharp points and topped with a bog-brush hairdo.

2014 Daily Star Sunday 19 Oct. 24 On The Apprentice, Sarah tried to flog a bucket of bog brushes, sponges and gloves for the knockdown price of £250.

1941 P. Larkin Let. 23 June in Sel. Lett. (1992) 14 I am merely starting a letter to you, having 5 minutes ago stamped in disgust out of the Playhouse & a shitty play. I seize a pad of blue bog paper and shamble out to the sunlit lawns.

1962 P. Purser Peregrination 22 xv. 71 Rolls of brown bog paper.

2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 51 There's no bog-paper so I have to use a tissue that I've blown my nose on.

1974 Guardian 23 Feb. 13/5 Another sufferer from the bog-roll shortage.

1997 G. Hills in S. Champion Disco Biscuits 69 The loos overflow with piss and there's no bog roll or door.

2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! vii. 76 We..took him to the municipal loo for ten minutes with a bog roll and a cake of soap.

1884 R. L. Stevenson Let. 11 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 269 The deevil a tower ava' can be perceived (except out of window): this is not as it should be; one might have hoped, at least, a turret bogshop.

1990 W. Smith Golden Fox (1991) 110 Those first pre-pubescent gropings and explorations in the showers and the bog shop.

2010 R. Senley Moustache Man & Deadly Whiskers 248 The cries and sobs and the wild farting from the bog shop.

1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxvii. 167 The Cuckooe, seeing him so bog, waxt also wondrous wroth.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 18 Thy bog and bold heart to be abashed.

1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 90 Bogge, bold, forward, sawcy. So we say, a very bog Fellow.

1693 G. Firmin Πανυργία iv. 32 A bog fellow, forward to put forth himself.

1839 C. Clark John Noakes & Mary Styles 3 Their bog it nuver ceases.

a1800 Trials Sons Rob Roy (1818) 120 (Jam.) Duncan Graham in Gartmore his horse bogged; that the deponent helped some others to take the horse out of the bogg.

1900 N. Smithwick Evol. State 325 The animal had bogged in crossing the little creek.

1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xii. 77 Bob Blades attempted to ride out of the river below the crossing, when his horse bogged down.

1928 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 12 May 184/2 On a clean sheet of paper he wrote the words ‘We know’, and there he bogged down.

1937 Times 22 Nov. 12/5 Congress..may bog down and do nothing.

1951 E. Taylor Game of Hide-and-seek i. iii. 70 ‘I wish Tiny and Kitty would come,’ anxious young hostesses would think when parties bogged down.

1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 163 If you had not written to me..we had broken now, the Frenchmen bogged us so often with departing.

1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties iii. f. 154^v A Frencheman: whom he [Manlius Torquatus] slew, being bogged [L. provocatus] by hym.