boggy

[bog-ee, baw-gee]

adjective

boggier, boggiest 

1. containing or full of bogs: bog.

   It was difficult walking through the boggy terrain.

2. wet and spongy.

   The ground is boggy under foot.

Other Word Forms

• bogginess noun
• unboggy adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of boggy¹

First recorded in 1580–90; bog ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

The 30-mile strenuous and pathless trek across mountainous terrain, rivers and boggy ground is part of the Cape Wrath Trail and is normally completed in three days.

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"The hills look burnt," he said, adding that peatland, usually wet and boggy, "is now crunchy" underfoot.

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"Thirty-thousand years ago, you could have walked from the Wolds to the Continent, across a wet, boggy landscape of trees, open water, rivers, springs, bogs," he says.

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Trenches hastily scratched out in the boggy soil of Flanders had become part of a continuous line of fortified trenches that stretched 475 miles from the English Channel to the Swiss Alps.

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The outfield is decidedly boggy out there as the Pears openers knock the ball around.

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Related Words

• dirty 
• dull 
• filthy 
• flat 
• gloomy 
• marshy 
• sloppy 
• sodden 
• soggy 
• swampy