Other Word Forms
- bogginess noun
- unboggy adjective
Etymology
Origin of boggy
Example Sentences
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Grassy hills and boggy ditches are Megan Keith's happy place.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 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
"What we're left with here is a remnant of Doggerland in Holderness - this wet, boggy area," says Mr Myerscough.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 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
Miyax tied another red patch on the sedge, rounded a boggy pond, and climbed the heave where the owl lived.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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