as in bathroom
a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste
they're out of paper in the bog again
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Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
There's also a daylily walk, a shrub mall, a rain garden, a bog garden walk and a rock garden.
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2024
This river is considered underdeveloped, its surrounding land consists of bogs and marsh areas, and its watershed is home to 220,000 people.
—Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 20 July 2024
The show cannot work without Winnifred, whose origins in a bog and whose poor etiquette enrage Aggravain.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
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Noun
The English press praised the book, but a few Irish writers objected to the ways the bog poems seemed to naturalize the Troubles, attributing the conflict to an ancient curse rather than to real and ongoing political oppression.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
There's also a daylily walk, a shrub mall, a rain garden, a bog garden walk and a rock garden.
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2024
This river is considered underdeveloped, its surrounding land consists of bogs and marsh areas, and its watershed is home to 220,000 people.
—Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 20 July 2024
The show cannot work without Winnifred, whose origins in a bog and whose poor etiquette enrage Aggravain.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
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“Bog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bog. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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