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adj. - (of soil) soft and watery.

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Usage examples (32)
  • The ground was boggy under foot
  • The watering-place was boggy but we could find no better.
  • Buttercup, the wild Pansy, and the Sundew of our boggy marshes.
  • Arbuckle, where it ran through a low region called "boggy bottom."
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  • A "bogey" is an unidentified flying object, a "bogy" is a goblin or evil spirit, while "boggy" means waterlogged.
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