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BOGGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does boggy mean?
• BOGGY (adjective)
The adjective BOGGY has 1 sense:
1. (of soil) soft and watery
Familiarity information: BOGGY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: boggiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of soil) soft and watery
Synonyms:
boggy; marshy; miry; mucky; muddy; quaggy; sloppy; sloughy; soggy; squashy; swampy; waterlogged
Context example:
swampy bayous
Similar:
wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)
Derivation:
bog (wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel)
Context examples
We did so, and at the end of a few hundred yards lost the tracks as we emerged from the boggy portion of the moor.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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