bog, v.¹ — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bog v.¹

[defined by the OED, which offers no cits., as ‘bog, intr. to exonerate the bowels; also trans. to defile with excrement’ and as ‘a low word, scarcely found in literature, however common in coarse colloquial language’; note also SE bog, to be enmired in a bog]

1. to defile with excrement.

1989

OED (2nd edn) [no cits. offered].

2. to defecate.

1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) I 18: He knew they [i.e. girls] had two holes, one for bogging and the other to piddle from.
2001		OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 bogs n. toilets... e.g. ‘going a’boggin’.
2015		N. Cummins Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] [N] complaining about there being no dunnies or showers ‘You’ll have to bog in the dirt’.

3. to urinate.

1873

Sl. Dict.

4. to look dirty, unkempt.

1948		J. O’Connor Come Day – Go Day (1984) 151: I’m going to wash that delph on the shelves up there; it’s bogging.
1993		I. Welsh Trainspotting 17: No doubt ah’m fuckin boggin n look a real mess.

bog v.1

bog v.¹