[
UK
/bˈɒɡi/
]
ADJECTIVE
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(of soil) soft and watery
swampy bayous
a marshy coastline
quaggy terrain
muddy barnyard
the ground was boggy under foot
miry roads
the sloughy edge of the pond
wet mucky lowland
How To Use boggy In A Sentence
- It's called a butterwort, and it always grows in boggy places; I wouldn't advise you to go after one again without asking father first. Milly and Olly
- The hosts could not cope with the diminutive striker on a boggy pitch. The Sun
- Further north you have service berries or juneberries in the wet woodlands; bearberries on the moors and heaths, checkerberries or wintergreen in the woods and moors, and cranberries in the boggy heaths, which has berries that remain on the plant throughout winter.
- At nine in the morning the rain finally ceased, though the ground was still boggy underfoot. A Model Victory
- The route turns away from the Ffos-y-Mynach at Waun Lodi where the path is boggy and dangerous.
- It is practically surrounded by boggy land some still uncut and all the rest reclaimed and, like Charlestown, was a new town, as ages of towns go.
- His best form has come in boggy ground and he just lacks the class to plunder this pot. The Sun
- My sight-lines and thought-lines to it are interrupted by the thick boggy hills and dazzling waters of Connemara. Commonplace: How am I to lose myself once again among the stones of Aran?
- Another group helicoptered to a boggy lakebed near the range's high point.
- Closing my eyes I can see, across the boggy run, a six-foot alligator erupting from the speckled combination of dark water and bright bladderwort.