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boggy

[bog-ee, baw-gee] / ˈbɒg i, ˈbɔ gi /
ADJECTIVE
marshy
Synonyms




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A 16-year-old managed to fight off competition from hundreds of plucky competitors to win an annual race through a boggy riverbed.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

"The hills look burnt," he said, adding that peatland, usually wet and boggy, "is now crunchy" underfoot.

From BBC • May 20, 2025

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

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2024

It took 60 years but a postulator from the Vatican finally came to Richard, a lonesome patch of boggy farmland in southern Louisiana’s rice belt, last December.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022

Immense blocks of black basalt, each as large as a crofter's cottage, lay scattered and tumbled like a child's wooden blocks, half-sunk in the soft boggy soil.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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