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boggy

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

Grassy hills and boggy ditches are Megan Keith's happy place.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

"All of this open water is down to the beavers," Peter Burgess of the Devon Wildlife Trust tells me as we splash our way through the boggy land.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025

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

Their country is so wet and boggy that Stirling’s horses sank to their chests in mud; boats were a primary means of transportation until recently.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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