boggy
Americanadjective
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containing or full of bogs.
It was difficult walking through the boggy terrain.
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wet and spongy.
The ground is boggy under foot.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of boggy
Explanation
Boggy places are wet, muddy, and sloppy. If you plan to hike through that boggy wetland, you're going to have to wear your waterproof boots! The adjective boggy means "like a bog," and a bog is a swampy wetland with a whole lot of moss. Marshes and swamps, while not bogs, can definitely be described as boggy. Your boggy yard isn't quite right for the vegetable garden you planted. Next year, you should try some cattails — they love that soggy dampness.
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Example Sentences
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A 16-year-old managed to fight off competition from hundreds of plucky competitors to win an annual race through a boggy riverbed.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
"All of this open water is down to the beavers," Peter Burgess of the Devon Wildlife Trust tells me as we splash our way through the boggy land.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025
The outfield is decidedly boggy out there as the Pears openers knock the ball around.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024
It took 60 years but a postulator from the Vatican finally came to Richard, a lonesome patch of boggy farmland in southern Louisiana’s rice belt, last December.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
In a boggy pocket smothered by drapes of ivy and mistletoe, me and Moran collapsed, too knackered to take another step.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
"There'll be a real variety of species," Glover added, explaining that the "wetter and boggier" landscape will see "more wading birds."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Large areas are becoming wetter and boggier, while native megaherbs such as Pleurophyllum and Stilbocarpa are shrinking back.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
That puts L.A. ahead of boggier metropolises such as Atlanta — the most mosquito-infested city for the previous seven years — Washington and Dallas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
They often dominate boggier soils that others can't endure; sometimes they're interspersed with a few mountain hemlocks and shore pine trees.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2012
"You have been a boggier ever," Antony tells Cleopatra, and the same might be said of this drama.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems like the wettest, boggiest slope ever, with scores of crisscrossing rainwater runnels, turning everything into a churn of mud and sheep droppings.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2018
Several ways present themselves, and whichever the traveller takes he will think that he has taken the boggiest.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.
The river-bed, too, was then in its boggiest state.
From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Carson, Thomas
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