Cogged vs Bogged - What's the difference?

cogged | bogged |

As verbs the difference between cogged and bogged

is that cogged is past tense of cog while bogged is past tense of bog.

cogged

English

Verb

(head)

(cog)

cog

English

(wikipedia cog)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from (etyl) . See below.

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.

*, Bk.V, Ch.iv:

*:As the Kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban, he felle in a slumberyng.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) (compare (etyl) . The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.

Noun

(en noun)

A tooth on a gear

A gear; a cogwheel

An unimportant individual in a greater system.

* 1976, Norman Denny (English translation),

‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’

* 1988,

Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do , then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog .

(carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.

(mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

Derived terms

* cog joint

Verb

(cogg)

To furnish with a cog or cogs.

Etymology 3

Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.

Noun

(en noun)

A trick or deception; a falsehood.

(William Watson)

Verb

(cogg)

to load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat

to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently

* Jonathan Swift

For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog .

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

* Shakespeare

I'll cog their hearts from them.

To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.

to cog in a word

* J. Dennis

Fustian tragedies have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) cogge

Alternative forms

* cogue

Noun

(en noun)

A small fishing boat

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bogged

English

Verb

(head)

(bog)

bog

English

(wikipedia bog)

Etymology 1

(etyl) and (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

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.

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 standard

Verb

(informal) To become (figuratively or literally) mired or stuck.

(transitive, British, informal) To make a mess of something.

Derived terms

* bog down * bog up

Etymology 2

by shortening and euphemistic alteration from (bugger)

Verb

To go away.

Derived terms

* bog off

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