Thicket vs Bog - What's the difference?
thicket | bog |
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
(figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
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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.
As nouns the difference between thicket and bog
is that thicket is a dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse while bog is .thicket
English
Noun
(en noun)Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
