An Irishman; Ireland being famous for its large bogs, which furnish the chief fuel in many parts of that kingdom.
·noun One who lands, or makes a landing. II. Lander ·noun A person who waits at the mouth of the sh...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. II. Bog ·vt ...
A marsh, or a tract of land, which from its form and impermeable bottom retains stagnant water. (See...
The Sailor's Word-Book
n. slang for a Queenslander (seeabove). ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
The same. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The necessary house. To go to bog; to go to stool. ...
Barbarous Latin. Irish.--See dog latin, and apothecaries latin. ...
One that lives in a boggy country. A derisive epithet applied to Irishmen. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
A northern name for the bittern, from its habit of thrusting its bill into marshy places. ...
Any one who lives among marshy moors, but generally applied to the Emeralders. ...