bog
noun
wet, spongy ground with soil composed mainly of decayed vegetable matter.
Example Sentences
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In the 1980s, the paths in many places were impossible to use, such was the scale of the erosion and bogginess, she added.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2022
We kept him in sight for some way, then we found our further progress somewhat impeded by the bogginess of the ground.
From A Voyage round the World A book for boys by William Henry Giles Kingston
They are nearly as level as the lakes whose places they have taken, and present a dry, even surface free from rock-heaps, mossy bogginess, and the frowsy roughness of rank, coarse-leaved, weedy, and shrubby vegetation.
From The Mountains of California by John Muir
The bogginess and ruggedness of our route, for the remainder of the day, sufficiently tried our strength: we accomplished however thirteen miles, and halted in a small valley about four miles south of Whitwell Hill.
From Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley
