dial. and vulgar. [see BOGGARD2.] A privy, ‘a house of office’ J. So bog-shop.

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1705.  Hickeringill, Priest-cr., II. v. 48. The Jaques, the Bog-house or House of Office.

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c. 1714.  Arbuthnot, etc., M. Scriblerus, I. xiv. He cast them all into a bog-house near St. James’.

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1761.  Brit. Mag., II. 163. They had found the intrails of a body in the bog-house.

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1828.  Guardian, 20 Sept., 4/4. Persons emptying bog-houses, or taking night-soil from any building or place, shall have flash-boards to their carts to prevent the same from spilling.

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