Bob vs. Bog — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bob and Bog
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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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