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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

"Thirty-thousand years ago, you could have walked from the Wolds to the Continent, across a wet, boggy landscape of trees, open water, rivers, springs, bogs," he says.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

He leads a group of fellow local walkers as they stomp through a boggy field, shoulders heavy with spades, and a wooden post.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2024

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

In a boggy pocket smothered by drapes of ivy and mistletoe, me and Moran collapsed, too knackered to take another step.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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