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Synonyms
bog (bôg, bŏg)

[Irish Gaelic bogach, from bog, soft.]

noun 

    1. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.
    2. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog
  2. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.

verb: bogged, bog·ging, bogs. 

transitive verb 

To cause to sink in or as if in a bog: We worried that the heavy rain across the prairie would soon bog our car. Don't bog me down in this mass of detail.

intransitive verb 

To be hindered and slowed.

derivatives

boǵgi·ness
noun
boǵgy
adjective