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ˈbog-trot, v.
[f. bog n.1 + trot v.: app. due to the earlier formation bog-trotter.]
intr. To trot over bogs; to live among bogs. Hence ˈbog-trotting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1734North Exam. ii. v. §14 (1740) 323 Better..to bog-trot in Ireland, than to pirk it in Preferment no better dressed. 1762Goldsm. Cit. W. II. lxviii, Rock advises the world to beware of bogtrotting quacks. 1839Stonehouse Axholme 398 It required very great care in stepping from tuft to tuft, which in Ireland, is called bog-trotting. |