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Bob vs. Bog — What's the Difference?

Bob vs. Bog — What's the Difference?

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Bob

To move up and down
A cork bobbing on the water.

Bog

A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat, a deposit of dead plant material—often mosses, and in a majority of cases, sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands.

Bob

To grab at floating or hanging objects with the teeth
Bobbed for apples.

Bog

An area of wet muddy ground that is too soft to support a heavy body
A peat bog
The island is a wilderness of bog and loch
A bog of legal complications

Bob

To fish with a bobber.
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Bog

The toilet.

Bob

To curtsy or bow.

Bog

Be or become stuck in mud or wet ground
The family Rover became bogged down on the beach road

Bob

To cause to move up and down
Bobbed my head in response to the question.

Bog

Go away
I told him to bog off

Bob

To cut short or reshape
Bobbed her hair.
Had his nose bobbed.

Bog

Start a task enthusiastically
If he saw a trucker in difficulty, he would just bog in and give a hand

Bob

A quick, jerky movement of the head or body.

Bog

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.

Bob

A bobber used in fishing.

Bog

Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.

Bob

A small, knoblike pendent object, such as a plumb bob.

Bog

An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.

Bob

A small lock or curl of hair.

Bog

Chiefly British Slang A restroom or toilet.

Bob

A haircut that hangs evenly above the shoulders, often around the chin, worn especially by women or children.

Bog

To cause to sink in a bog
The bus got bogged down in the muddy road.

Bob

(Informal) Surgical shortening or reshaping of the nose.

Bog

To hinder or slow
The project got bogged down in haggling about procedures.

Bob

The docked tail of a horse.

Bog

To be hindered and slowed.

Bob

A bobsled.

Bog

An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.

Bob

A bob skate.

Bog

(figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.

Bob

A shilling.

Bog

(uncountable) The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.

Bob

(intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.
The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.
The flowers were bobbing in the wind.

Bog

A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.

Bob

(transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
I bobbed my head underwater and saw the goldfish.
Bob one's head (= to nod)

Bog

An act or instance of defecation.

Bob

To curtsy.

Bog

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

Bob

To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.

Bog

(obsolete) nodot=1: a bugbear, monster, or terror.

Bob

(intransitive) blob

Bog

(obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.

Bob

(transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?

Bog

To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.

Bob

(transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.

Bog

(figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.

Bob

To bobsleigh.

Bog

To sink and stick in bogland.

Bob

A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
A bob of the head

Bog

(figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.

Bob

A curtsy.

Bog

To defecate, to void one's bowels.

Bob

A bobber buoyant fishing device.

Bog

To cover or spray with excrement.

Bob

Any of various hesperiid butterflies.

Bog

To make a mess of something.

Bob

A bob haircut.

Bog

To provoke, to bug.

Bob

Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.

Bog

To go away.

Bob

The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.

Bog

(obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.

Bob

The docked tail of a horse.

Bog

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit,Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread.

Bob

A short line ending a stanza of a poem.

Bog

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

Bob

The short runner of a sled.

Bog

To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend.

Bob

A bobsleigh.

Bog

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

Bob

A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

Bog

Cause to slow down or get stuck;
The vote would bog down the house

Bob

A working beam in a steam engine.

Bog

Get stuck while doing something;
She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation

Bob

A particular style of ringing changes on bells.

Bob

A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

Bob

(obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.

Bob

(obsolete) The refrain of a song.

Bob

(obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.

Bob

A shilling.

Bob

A 10-cent coin.

Bob

(slang) An unspecified amount of money.
I could have saved myself a few bob buying it somewhere else.

Bob

A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.

Bob

Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.
In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob.

Bob

A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow,Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow.

Bob

A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

Bob

The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.

Bob

A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

Bob

A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.

Bob

A working beam.

Bob

A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
A plain brown bob he wore.

Bob

A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.

Bob

The refrain of a song.
To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.

Bob

A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

Bob

A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
He that a fool doth very wisely hit,Doth very foolishly, although he smart,Not to seem senseless of the bob.

Bob

A shilling.

Bob

To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.

Bob

To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.

Bob

To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him.

Bob

To mock or delude; to cheat.
To play her pranks, and bob the fool,The shrewish wife began.

Bob

To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.

Bob

To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.

Bob

A former monetary unit in Great Britain

Bob

A hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around

Bob

A long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism

Bob

A hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string

Bob

A small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line

Bob

A short or shortened tail of certain animals

Bob

A short abrupt inclination (as of the head);
He gave me a short bob of acknowledgement

Bob

Move up and down repeatedly;
Her rucksack bobbed gently on her back

Bob

Ride a bobsled;
The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure

Bob

Remove or shorten the tail of an animal

Bob

Make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect;
She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand

Bob

Cut hair in the style of a bob;
Bernice bobs her hair these days!

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