Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing bogs; full of bogs; like or having the character of a bog.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the qualities of a
bog ; i.e.dank ,squishy ,muddy , and full ofwater and rotting vegetation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of soil) soft and watery
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Examples
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Snatch landrovers, although entirely unsuitable for Iraq, work greta in boggy terrain like teh Falklands.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war? 2010
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By Matt K, March 9, 2010 @ 8: 06 am sparty: “Snatch landrovers, although entirely unsuitable for Iraq, work greta in boggy terrain like teh Falklands.”
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war? 2010
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The accident had occurred in the midst of a wooded stretch, wild and uninhabited, with "soup" (as Sydney called the boggy land) on both sides in the dense undergrowth.
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Along the walls on the ground is a series of round stones, some of them capped with a straw collar or hassock, on which the boys sit; others have bosses, and many of them hobs -- a light but compact kind of boggy substance found in the mountains.
The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Around the 32 Counties: A Galway town is to honour its own Oscar-winner, Monaghan will stage a 'boggy' national championships, and an unusual game of poker is to take place in Westmeath.
unknown title 2009
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In the photo ..., two locals are "guiding" us through a deep, boggy, messy stretch of road.
Photo Essay: Peace Corps Volunteers Share 50 Years of Memories 2011
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My sight-lines and thought-lines to it are interrupted by the thick boggy hills and dazzling waters of Connemara.
Commonplace: How am I to lose myself once again among the stones of Aran? 2009
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Since ciénaga means marsh, or bog in Spanish, and coming from an area of California where there were many people of Spanish, or Mexican decent, I had learned that ciénaga meant the boggy area below a spring on a hillside when I was a boy.
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It was a boggy prairie about a mile long and a quarter-mile wide, flanked all around by hills and by two mountains.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Chaos plagued the Washington, D.C., encampment, which literally sunk in mire as early-summer rains turned “Resurrection City” into a boggy mess.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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