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• n  wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
• v  cause to slow down or get stuck
  The vote would bog down the house
• v  get stuck while doing something
  She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation

• In the Wall Street Journal, potatoes were "bog oranges.
• She struggles desperately to parody herself but only sinks deeper and deeper into the bog around her.
• Four miles from Miami there used to be a tidal bog.

• peat bog
• bog down

News & Articles

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• Small Norton brewery gets pouring license
  Customers can now taste beer samples from Bog Iron Brewing, 33 W. Main St. The company is a small brewery run by friends who have been brewing for 20 years as a hobby, according to co-founder Brian Shurtleff.
  June 22, 2013 - Fall River Herald News
• BOG questions branch campus performance
  By: Divya Kumar, EDITOR IN CHIEF When the Florida Board of Governors (BOG) began three days of meetings on the USF campus Tuesday, the board had a harsh line of questioning for the host campus after listening to a 20-minute presentation highlighting many...
  June 20, 2013 - The Oracle
• Bog Iron Brewing gets pourers license
  Customers can now taste beer samples from Bog Iron Brewing, located at 33 West Main St., in Norton.
  June 19, 2013 - The Taunton Gazette

Quotes

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• Paul Keating in Sydney Morning Herald
  THE Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay has become "infested" with the "bog-standard Sydney restaurateur" and should be partially demolished to open up views of historic buildings on George Street, the former prime minister Paul Keating...
• Richard Cody in NPR
  Clearly, we've had a breakdown in leadership and have bureaucratic medical and contractual processes bog down a speedy solution to these problems,Cody said.