Bog vs Syllable - What's the difference?
bog | syllable |
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.
(linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.
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The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
* Hooker
* Shakespeare
(poetic) To utter in syllables.
As nouns the difference between bog and syllable
is that bog is while syllable is (linguistics) a unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.As a verb syllable is
(poetic) to utter in syllables.bog
English
(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
* ----syllable
English
Noun
(en noun)- Before any syllable of the law of God was written.
- Who dare speak / One syllable against him?
Derived terms
* monosyllable * polysyllable * quadrisyllable * quinquesyllable * syllabary * syllabatim * syllabic * syllabification * syllabify * trisyllable * words of one syllableVerb
(syllabl)- Aery tongues that syllable men's names — Milton.