boggy

comparative boggier · superlative boggiest

1. Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.

   The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.

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   Offer a bulky and boggy bun to the suspected individual just ten minutes before dinner. If this is eagerly accepted and devoured, the fact of youth is established.

   1860, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The professor at the breakfast-table: with the story of Iris

   But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build on.

   1924, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.

   As well as being a magnet for wildlife, Flow Country is also special for its valuable role in mitigating climate change, as the boggy ground provides a huge natural sink for carbon dioxide.

   2021 November 3, Paul Stephen, “As far north as you can go... to Thurso”, in RAIL, number 943, page 49

   Synonyms: marshy, swampy, boggish, fennish, fenny, marish, marshy, miry