v. [f. BOG sb.1 + TROT v.: app. due to the earlier formation BOG-TROTTER.] intr. To trot over bogs; to live among bogs. Hence Bog-trotting vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
a. 1734. North, Exam., II. v. § 14 (1740), 323. Better … to bog-trot in Ireland, than to pirk it in Preferment no better dressed.
1762. Goldsm., Cit. W., II. lxviii. Rock advises the world to beware of bogtrotting quacks.
1839. Stonehouse, Axholme, 398. It required very great care in stepping from tuft to tuft, which in Ireland, is called bog-trotting.
