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Meanings of boggy in English

(Of soil) soft and watery.

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      1
      The horse bounded forwards too quickly to sink in the boggy ground.
      Westways: A Village Chronicle
      2
      Suitability: Outing mainly follows tracks but includes some boggy and unstable terrain.
      The Irish Times
      3
      Here on the boggy floodplain of the Fleet it was really something.
      The system of the world
      4
      He splashed through the boggy land, paying no attention to his footsteps.
      Macleod of Dare
      5
      Beyond the moat, the boggy ploughed fields stretch to the leaden sky.
      I capture the castle
      6
      There were six tents scattered around a boggy depression in the ground.
      Fears Unnamed
      7
      I expect it'll be boggy, an' I hope the snow melts soon.
      The Last of the Plainsmen
      8
      It had stopped raining outside and the ground was wet and boggy.
      Winter door
      9
      They have a boggy stink, like frogs and trees and scummy water.
      A clash of kings
      10
      Level: A long, hard walk crossing exposed mountainside with rough and boggy ground.
      Independent.ie
      11
      This plain was about three miles wide and boggy in places.
      Fair Margaret
      12
      The ground was wet and boggy for some distance on the other side.
      On the Pampas; Or, The Young Settlers
      13
      The road became muddy and boggy beyond description, and the rain kept falling.
      The Life of Me: An Autobiography
      14
      The soil began to be marshy and boggy, and less favorable to progress.
      A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
      15
      Something glittered on the boggy surface, five feet to his left.
      Neverwhere
      16
      Started at 9 a.m. on a south-south-east course to round the boggy country.
      Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
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