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adjective
- 1. too wet and muddy to be easily walked on; marshy: "the shrub grows naturally in boggy ground"
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adjective. uk / ˈbɒɡ.i / us / ˈbɑː.ɡi / Add to word list. Boggy ground is soft and wet. Synonyms. marshy. swampy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Geography: wetland. bog. boreal forest. constructed wetland. fen. floodplain. marshland. marshy. mire. miry. morass. peat bog. quagmire. quicksand. reed bed. slough. swampland. swampy.
: consisting of, containing, resembling, or being a bog : swampy, marshy. boggy land. Beyond the neighborhood lies a boggy expanse of cordgrass … Sarah Schweitzer. … there was no trail, and it was boggy underfoot, which made walking difficult. E. B. White. Examples of boggy in a Sentence.
Boggy definition: containing or full of bogs. See examples of BOGGY used in a sentence.
Boggy places are wet, muddy, and sloppy. If you plan to hike through that boggy wetland, you're going to have to wear your waterproof boots! The adjective boggy means "like a bog," and a bog is a swampy wetland with a whole lot of moss.
Definition of 'boggy' Word Frequency. boggy. (bɒgi ) Word forms: comparative boggier, superlative boggiest. adjective. Boggy land is very wet and muddy land. Many thrive in boggy soil too. Synonyms: marshy, muddy, waterlogged, spongy More Synonyms of boggy. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
adjective. us / ˈbɑː.ɡi / uk / ˈbɒɡ.i / Add to word list. Boggy ground is soft and wet. Synonyms. marshy. swampy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Geography: wetland. bog. boreal forest. fen. floodplain. marshy. mire. miry. morass. peat bog. peatland. quicksand. reed bed. slough. swamp gas. swampy. water meadow. waterlogged. wetland.
n. 1. a. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow. b. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog. 2. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground. 3.
Definition of boggy adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Boggy definition: Having the qualities of a bog ; i.e. dank , squishy , muddy , and full of water and rotting vegetation.
boggy meaning, definition, what is boggy: boggy ground is wet and muddy: Learn more.
