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1.nounAn area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
2.nounConfusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
3.nounThe acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
4.nounA place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
5.nounAn act or instance of defecation.
6.nounA little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
7.verb(now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
8.verbTo prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
9.verb(now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
10.verbTo be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
11.verb(originally vulgar Britain) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
12.verb(originally vulgar Britain) To cover or spray with excrement.
13.verbTo make a mess of something.
14.nounPuffery, boastfulness.
15.verbTo provoke, to bug.
16.verb(usually with "off") To go away.
17.nounAn insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
18.nounAny of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
19.nounAny insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest."These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them."
20.nounAny insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
21.noun(chiefly computing and engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing."The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 3."
22.nounA contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it"He’s got the flu bug."
23.nounAn enthusiasm for something; an obsession"I caught the skiing bug while staying in the Alps."
24.nounA keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
25.nounA concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device"We installed a bug in her telephone."
26.nounA small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users."He suspected the image was a Web bug used for determining who was visiting the site."
27.nounA small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising it"Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show."
28.nounA manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
29.nounA semi-automated telegraph key.
30.nounHobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.
31.noun("the bug") HIV.
32.nounA limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
33.nounA trilobite.
34.nounA young apprentice jockey.
35.nounA microfossil, particularly a foraminiferan.