- a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
- such vegetable matter used as fertilizer or fuel.
- a merry young girl; darling (used as a term of endearment).
- a compact brownish deposit of partially decomposed vegetable matter saturated with water: found in uplands and bogs in temperate and cold regions and used as a fuel (when dried) and as a fertilizer
- (as modifier)
- a piece of dried peat for use as fuel
- a person, esp a woman
- a term of endearment for a girl or woman
