boggy

English

Etymology

From bog +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

boggy (comparative boggier, superlative boggiest)

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

   Synonyms: marshy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy

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

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

     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.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Billy Budd‎^[1], London: Constable & Co.:

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

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

     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.

Derived terms

• boggily
• bogginess
• unboggy

 

Translations

having the qualities of a bog

• Bulgarian: мочурлив (bg) (močurliv), блатист (bg) (blatist)
• Catalan: pantanós
• French: marécageux (fr)
• Galician: brañento
• Ido: marshoza (io), marshatra (io)
• Ingrian: mutaisikko
• Irish: abarach
• Latin: paluster
• Latvian: staigns (lv), purvains, muklains, mukls
• Maori: mawharu, tāpokopoko, pōharuharu, pōwharuwharu, tāoruoru, hāpoko, kōrengarenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: myrete, myret

• Ottoman Turkish: باتاق (batak)
• Polish: bagnisty (pl), bagienny (pl)
• Russian: боло́тистый (ru) (bolótistyj)
• Venetan: aquitrinoso m