boggy

American

[bog-ee, baw-gee] / ˈbɒg i, ˈbɔ gi /

adjective

boggier, boggiest

containing or full of bogs: bog.

It was difficult walking through the boggy terrain.
wet and spongy.

The ground is boggy under foot.

Other Word Forms

bogginess noun
unboggy adjective

Etymology

Origin of boggy

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

Example Sentences

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"It's not really cross country if it isn't boggy."

From BBC

His feet landed in an inch of boggy water.

From Literature

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.

From BBC

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

From BBC

"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.

From BBC

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