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boggy

[bog-ee, baw-gee] / ˈbɒg i, ˈbɔ gi /
ADJECTIVE
marshy
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The 30-mile strenuous and pathless trek across mountainous terrain, rivers and boggy ground is part of the Cape Wrath Trail and is normally completed in three days.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

"The hills look burnt," he said, adding that peatland, usually wet and boggy, "is now crunchy" underfoot.

From BBC • May 20, 2025

The outfield is decidedly boggy out there as the Pears openers knock the ball around.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 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

He did well to send me, Reek told himself as he climbed back onto his stot to lead his ragged column back across the boggy ground to where the northmen were encamped.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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