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boggy

wet and spongy; containing bogs: a boggy field

Not to be confused with:

bogey – in golf, to score one stroke over par on a hole: He made a bogey on the last hole.

bogy – a hobgoblin; something that haunts, harasses, or frightens

bog

(bôg, bŏg)

a. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.

b. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.

2. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.

3. Chiefly British Slang A restroom or toilet.

v. bogged, bog·ging, bogs

v.tr.

1. To cause to sink in a bog: The bus got bogged down in the muddy road.

2. To hinder or slow: The project got bogged down in haggling about procedures.

v.intr.

To be hindered and slowed.

[Irish Gaelic bogach, from bog, soft; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]

bog′gi·ness n.

bog′gy adj.

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Adj.

boggy - (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"

marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged, squashy, sloppy

wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"

boggy

adjective marshy, muddy, waterlogged, spongy, swampy, soft, yielding, fenny, oozy, miry, quaggy a green patch at the far end of a boggy field

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Translations

مُسْتَنْقَعي، سَبَخ

bahnitýmočálovitý

mÿrlendur

boggy

[ˈbɒgɪ] ADJ (boggier (compar) (boggiest (superl))) → pantanoso

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boggy

[ˈbɒgi] adj [ground] → marécageux/euse

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boggy

adj (+er) ground → sumpfig, morastig

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boggy

[ˈbɒgɪ] adj → paludoso/a

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bog

(bog) noun

very wet ground; marsh.

ˈboggy adjective

boggy ground.

be bogged down

to be hindered in movement; to be prevented from making progress. The tractor is bogged down in the mud.

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They stumbled into wet, boggy places; they got all tangled up in thick convolvulus-runners; they scratched themselves on thorns, and twice they nearly lost the medicine-bag in the under-brush.

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She always went by way of the swamp; it was a lovely place -- a boggy soil, green with the greenest of mossy hillocks; a silvery brook meandered through it and spruces stood erectly, their boughs a-trail with gray-green mosses, their roots overgrown with all sorts of woodland lovelinesses.

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With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.

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A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted.

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I looked again, and saw him standing in the middle of a boggy Stygian fen, surrounded by devils, and he had found his bounds without a doubt, three little stones, where a stake had been driven, and looking nearer, I saw that the Prince of Darkness was his surveyor.

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We did so, and at the end of a few hundred yards lost the tracks as we emerged from the boggy portion of the moor.

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Council officials made the decision after inspecting the park, which has been victim of severe floods leaving the land boggy and many parts still submerged.

WEATHER Carnival called off as park is flooded

What ensued was a hugely fun but boggy ride, even if during my go as driver I somehow got our vehicle so stuck in the mud I almost blew the engine and missed lunch.

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This had worsened, becoming a painful and boggy mass on the back of his head with focal alopecia.