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boggy

[bog-ee, baw-gee] / ˈbɒg i, ˈbɔ gi /
ADJECTIVE
marshy
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Belgium's largest wildfire in a century was brought "under control" Thursday after a seven-day fight involving hundreds of firefighters in the boggy terrain of the High Fens nature reserve.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Firefighters hacked their way through boggy terrain overnight to fully surround Belgium's largest wildfire in a century, but crews were still battling numerous flare-ups in the High Fens nature reserve.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

That’s well within the average 31-mile range of the electrified tundra buggies deployed by wildlife tour company Frontiers North Adventures, with 5-foot high wheels that can tackle rugged and boggy terrain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

The outfield is decidedly boggy out there as the Pears openers knock the ball around.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024

It landed in the boggy distance, glowing weakly in the dark.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

"There'll be a real variety of species," Glover added, explaining that the "wetter and boggier" landscape will see "more wading birds."

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Large areas are becoming wetter and boggier, while native megaherbs such as Pleurophyllum and Stilbocarpa are shrinking back.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

That puts L.A. ahead of boggier metropolises such as Atlanta — the most mosquito-infested city for the previous seven years — Washington and Dallas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2021

They often dominate boggier soils that others can't endure; sometimes they're interspersed with a few mountain hemlocks and shore pine trees.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2012

"You have been a boggier ever," Antony tells Cleopatra, and the same might be said of this drama.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seems like the wettest, boggiest slope ever, with scores of crisscrossing rainwater runnels, turning everything into a churn of mud and sheep droppings.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2018

Several ways present themselves, and whichever the traveller takes he will think that he has taken the boggiest.

From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by H. C. Hart

The river-bed, too, was then in its boggiest state.

From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson




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