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- noun The state or quality of being
boggy .
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Examples
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I think only the bogginess of the path kept me stuck to it.
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I think only the bogginess of the path kept me stuck to it.
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The bogginess and ruggedness of our route, for the remainder of the day, sufficiently tried our strength: we accomplished however thirteen miles, and halted in a small valley about four miles south of Whitwell Hill.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
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Evidence for the bogginess was visible in the form of a tall man over toward the far bank.
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Evidence for the bogginess was visible in the form of a tall man over toward the far bank.
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Evidence for the bogginess was visible in the form of a tall man over toward the far bank.
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Evidence for the bogginess was visible in the form of a tall man over toward the far bank.
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The ground was soft and spongy, slippery with damp dead leaves, and inclined in a general way to bogginess; but it was ground that Roderick Vawdrey had known all his life, and it seemed more natural to him than any other spot upon mother earth.
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The woods of Indiana ran to moss, and sometimes descended to bogginess, and broad-leaved paw-paw bushes crowded the shade; mighty sycamores blotched with white, leaned over the streams: there was a dreamy influence in the June air, and pale blue curtains of mist hung over distances.
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We kept him in sight for some way, then we found our further progress somewhat impeded by the bogginess of the ground.
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