: 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
Recent Examples on the WebUkrainian forces were further limited by the onset of winter, as the ground became boggy.—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2023 He’s just been tasked with figuring out who lobbed off the noggin’ of a barrister at a secretive monastery in the boggy small town of Scarnsea.—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024 Avoid wet or boggy growing areas because citronella plants may rot in soggy soil.—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2024 Setting The Searcher and The Hunter far from Dublin, out among the boggy wilds and muddy farms of Ireland’s west coast, pulls at a different aspect of the country’s economic decline.—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024 An ancient worshiper stopped at the edge of a boggy area in modern-day Wales and looked at the spring.—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024 But instead of beaches and saltwater marshes, woodcock are found where boggy, muddy areas meet with dense cover and young forests.—Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023 Nearby limestone and sandstone were ruled out as filler because crews worried such material would soon decay in the wet soil, returning the site to its boggy condition.—The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023 Select types of cars—many of which had off-road wheels—were also able to navigate the boggy terrain.—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
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