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What is "boggy" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does boggy mean in English? Meaning of boggy definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "boggy" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "boggy": (of soil) soft and watery

Adjective

  • Meaning: (of soil) soft and watery
  • Example: the ground was boggy under foot a marshy coastline miry roads wet mucky lowland muddy barnyard quaggy terrain the sloughy edge of the pond swampy bayous
  • Synonyms: boggy marshy miry mucky muddy quaggy sloppy sloughy soggy squashy swampy waterlogged
  • Similar: wet
  • Adjective: Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation. The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The professor at the breakfast-table: with the story of Iris Offer a bulky and boggy bun to the suspected individual just ten minutes before dinner. If this is eagerly accepted and devoured, the fact of youth is established.Oliver Wendell Holmes, The professor at the breakfast-table: with the story of Iris Offer a bulky and boggy bun to the suspected individual just ten minutes before dinner. If this is eagerly accepted and devoured, the fact of youth is established.

    • Synonyms:

    soggy, miry, mucky, quaggy, fenny, moory, paludal, flat, swampy, soggy, marshy, dull, gloomy, dirty, sloppy, filthy, sodden, addled, confused, foul, black, obscure, dingy, fuzzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, gummy, hazy, impure, indistinct, opaque, smoky, turbid, unclean, unclear, miry, mucky, roily, slushy, bespattered, soiled, blurred, bemired, caked, gunky, subfuse,

    Antonyms:

    vivacious, sterile, understanding, sharp, dry, bright, light, clean, pure, clear, good,

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