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bog people, n. With pl. concord.
Brit. |ˈbɒg ˌpiːpl|, U.S. |ˈbɔg ˌpip(ə)l|, |ˈbɑg ˌpip(ə)l|
[‹ bog n.1 + people n. In sense 2 after Danish mosefolket (1965, in source translated in quot. 1969 2).]
1. Collectively: the inhabitants of a boggy area. rare.
1878Times 29 Jan. 4/6 The old troglodytes, pile-villagers, and bog-people prove to be quite a respectable society. 1988Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 Nov. w10 Chevrier and other bog people..are appealing to citizens to join a city-wide movement to convince Mississauga city council that the picturesque wetland is a chunk of local natural history that is worthy of preservation.
2. Collectively: the bodies, typically belonging to pre-Christian Germanic cultures, found in a well-preserved state in peatbogs in northern Europe. Cf. bogman n. 2.
1969R. Bruce-Mitford tr. P. V. Glob (title) The bog people: Iron-Age man preserved. 1988Paleobiol. 14 334 The so-called ‘bog people’ from the peats of northern Germany, Scandinavia, Britain, and Ireland..have been mistaken for recent murder victims. 1996A. Michaels Fugitive Pieces ii. 221, I had discovered the perfectly preserved bog people in National Geographic, and derived a fascinated comfort from their preservation. |