Bog vs Puddle - What's the difference?
bog | puddle |
An expanse of marshland.
(Ireland, British, New Zealand, coarse, slang) A toilet.
(US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
(informal) To become (figuratively or literally) mired or stuck.
(transitive, British, informal) To make a mess of something.
To go away.
A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 90:
A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
To form a puddle.
To play or splash in a puddle.
To process iron by means of puddling.
To line a canal with puddle (clay).
To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between bog and puddle
is that bog is an expanse of marshland while puddle is a small pool of water, usually on a path or road.As verbs the difference between bog and puddle
is that bog is to become (figuratively or literally) mired or stuck while puddle is to form a puddle.bog
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(wikipedia bog)Etymology 1
(etyl) and (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (expanse of marshland) marsh, moor, swamp * shithouse (taboo slang''), dunny (''Australia )Derived terms
* bog bilberry * bog brush * bog iron * bog orchid * bog paper * bog roll * bog standardVerb
Derived terms
* bog down * bog upEtymology 2
by shortening and euphemistic alteration from (bugger)Verb
Derived terms
* bog offAnagrams
* ----puddle
English
Noun
(en noun)- And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].
- searching their habitations for water, we could fill but three barricoes, and that such puddle , that never till then we ever knew the want of good water.
Verb
(puddl)- Some unhatched practice / Hath puddled his clear spirit.