boggy

[ bog-ee, baw-gee ]

/ ˈbɒg i, ˈbɔ gi /

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adjective, bog·gi·er, bog·gi·est.

containing or full of bogs: It was difficult walking through the boggy terrain.

wet and spongy: The ground is boggy under foot.

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Origin of boggy

First recorded in 1580–90; bog¹ + -y¹

bog·gi·ness, nounun·bog·gy, adjective

Exyra fax spends its entire childhood inside one of its boggy namesakes.
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Then head west to the otherworldly Dolly Sods Wilderness in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia, whose boggy terrain looks quite a bit like southern Canada especially on a foggy day.
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It ended in a broad open moor, stony; and full of damp boggy hollows, forlorn and desolate under the autumn sky.
The Daisy Chain|Charlotte Yonge
We worked rather towards Bertry, avoiding woods and boggy bits, but the line wasn't easy to keep.
The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade|Edward Lord Gleichen

Occasionally a more insecure area was encountered, where one of us would go down to the thighs in the boggy ground.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
As the soil is soft, and the slope very gentle till near the Miosson, the bottom of this hollow may well have been boggy.
Battles of English History|H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George
Boggy pools there are, especially on the western side (all drained in our time).
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle