BOGGY

boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged

(adjective) (of soil) soft and watery; “the ground was boggy under foot”; “a marshy coastline”; “miry roads”; “wet mucky lowland”; “muddy barnyard”; “quaggy terrain”; “the sloughy edge of the pond”; “swampy bayous”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

boggy (comparative boggier, superlative boggiest)

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

Synonyms: marshy, swampy, Thesaurus:marshy

Source: Wiktionary


Bog"gy, a.

Definition: Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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