Bog-standard Definition

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(UK, somewhat derogatory) Ordinary, basic.

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(idiomatic) Especially plain, ordinary, or unremarkable; having no special, excess or unusual features; plain vanilla.

She drives a bog standard economy car.
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Origin of Bog-standard

  • Uncertain; perhaps most likely bog (“toilet”) + standard with obscure semantic development. Believed to derive from early ceramic toilets being produced to exactly the same specification in white only which became known as the bog standard.

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  • Unknown.

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