quagmire

Recorded since 1579, from quag + mire. The sense “perilous, mixed up and troubled situation” has been recorded since 1775.
Alternatively, the word may apparently be a variation of the earlier quakemire, from quake + mire.

That quagmire regularly ‘swallows’ caught-up hikers’ boots

Never did I see a more dreary and depressing scene. Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly: miles on miles of it without a break, unless the fever fog can be called a break.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:


bog

Inherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos.
The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”).
Its use for toilets is now often derived from the resemblance of latrines and outhouse cesspools to bogholes, but the noun sense appears to be a clipped form of boghouse (“outhouse, privy”), which derived (possibly via boggard) from the verb to bog, still used in Australian English. The derivation and its connection to other senses of "bog" remains uncertain, however, owing to an extreme lack of early citations due to its perceived vulgarity.

der

...quagmires and bogges of Romish superstition...

1614, John King, Vitis Palatina, page 30:

Last day my mind was in a bog.

a. 1796, Robert Burns, Poems & Songs, volume I:

He wandered out again, in a perfect bog of uncertainty.

1841, Charles Dickens, chapter LXXII, in Barnaby Rudge, page 358:

(figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.

mire

any place or thing that impedes progress

Damon does emphasize that great red rice should always be fluffy and never mushy like a rice bog.

2013, James Villas, Southern Fried: More Than 150 Recipes for Crab Cakes, Fried Chicken, Hush Puppies, and More, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 196:

I love Chicken Bog because it's one of those very regional recipes that has survived […] Don't skim or otherwise remove the fat from the stock though—it will help flavor the bog. Let the chicken cool and then pick the meat, setting it aside for the bog recipe that follows. The broth will[…]

2016 October 1, Elliott Moss, Buxton Hall Barbecue's Book of Smoke: Wood-Smoked Meat, Sides, and More, Voyageur Press, →ISBN, page 113:

Chicken and rice bog for their supper so she wouldn't have to cook.

2018, Ann W Phillips, Lady Of Esterbrooke:


sog

en-verb

sog (third-person singular simple present sogs, present participle sogging, simple past and past participle sogged)

sogs (present singular third-person)
sogging (participle present)
sogged (participle past)
sogged (past)

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Of uncertain origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin (compare Icelandic söggur (“moist”), dialectal Norwegian søgg (“moist”), dialectal Swedish sögg, sygg (“something moist”)), from Old Norse söggr (“dank, wet”), from Proto-Germanic *sawwijaz, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sawwą (“moisture, sap, juice”), related to Old English ġesēaw (“full of moisture, soaked”), Old English sēaw (“moisture, juice, humour”). The verb is possibly related to soak.

cog

Two red-coated sportsmen, while hunting close to our village the other day, got into a small but deep pond. They were said to have fallen into the “stank,” and got “zogged” through: for a small pond is a “stank,” and to be “zogged” is equivalent to being soaked.

1983 [1898], J. Arthur Gibbs, “The Language of the Cotswolds, with Some Ancient Songs and Legends”, in A Cotswold Village, or Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire, 3rd edition, London: Breslich & Foss, →ISBN, page 84:

(transitive) To soak, steep or saturate.


flow

Uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse flói (“a large bay, firth”), see floe. Compare Scots flow (“peat-bog, marsh”), Icelandic flói (“marshy ground”).

[…] there are other extensive mosses in this district, commonly called flowes, which it is not probable ever will, or ever can be, converted into arable land. Some of these flowes are found to be 20, 25, or 30 feet deep, and are, besides, such a dead level, that the water has little or no descent; and even supposing they should be cast, or burnt to the bottom, standing pools of dirty water could only stand in their place.

1794, John Sinclair, The Statistical Account of Scotland, volume 10, page 328

Ye'll stick in some flow, Or, ye'll melt in a thow

1871, Alexander Boswell, Poetical Works, page 213:

Had been roughly laid with bog-wood dug from the flowes,

Dandering o'er ferney knowes, [...] Springing o'er bogs an' flowes, [...]

1896, Proudlock, Borderland Muse, page 8:

If dey wirna a day apo' da flow dan he [it] wis nae man's bishaness.

1898 July 23, Shetland News, quoted in the EDD

(Scotland) A bog or mire, especially a rough, waterlogged one.


wash

en-verb

wash (third-person singular simple present washes, present participle washing, simple past washed, past participle washed or (archaic) washen)

washes (present singular third-person)
washing (participle present)
washed (past)
washed (participle past)
washen (archaic participle past)

→ Swazi: washa

From Middle English wasshen, waschen, weschen, from Old English wascan, from Proto-West Germanic *waskan, from Proto-Germanic *waskaną, *watskaną (“to wash, get wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“wet; water”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian waaske (“to wash”), West Frisian waskje (“to wash”), Dutch wassen, wasschen (“to wash”), Low German waschen (“to wash”), German waschen (“to wash”), Danish vaske (“to wash”), Norwegian Bokmål vaske (“to wash”), Swedish vaska (“to wash”), Icelandic vaska (“to wash”).

der

(intransitive) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.

(transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.


wash

en-noun

wash (countable and uncountable, plural washes)

The ship left a big wash

Sail away from the wash to avoid rocking the boat.

To date, much of the research undertaken on high-speed vessel wake wash has appeared only as unpublished reports for various authorities and management agencies.

2003, Guidelines for Managing Wake Wash from High-speed Vessels: Report of Working Group 41 of the Maritime Navigation Commission, PIANC, →ISBN, page 5:

The bow wave, wake, or vortex of an object moving in a fluid, in particular:

The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.

The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.

The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.


moor

From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.

[möː(ə̯)~mʊ̈ː(ə̯)]

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maw (most non-rhotic accents with the pour–poor merger)

A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.

In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.

the ruins yet resting in the wild moors

1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:

And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.

1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, →OCLC, pages 101-102:

An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)

بِرْكَة

region with poor, marshy soil, peat and heath


moor

en-verb

moor (third-person singular simple present moors, present participle mooring, simple past and past participle moored)

moors (present singular third-person)
mooring (participle present)
moored (participle past)
moored (past)

From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *mārian, from Proto-West Germanic *mairōn (“to moor, fasten to”), related to *maida- (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey- (“stake, pole”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”).

inh

[möː(ə̯)~mʊ̈ː(ə̯)]

The vessel moored in the stream.

(intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.


bana

Borrowed from Kapampangan bana (“lowland; marshland”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəna (“lower part of a river; tidal bore”). Compare Malay bena.


fen

From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanją, from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”).
See also West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen; also Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”).

cog

Bogs are acidic, nutrient poor, and have a low species diversity, whereas fens are less acidic and have higher nutrient levels and species diversity.

1996, Geological Survey (U.S.), National Water Summary on Wetland Resources, →ISBN, page 214:

Bogs are acidic peatlands, while fens are non-acidic peatlands.

2019 February 19, Sincere Humphrey, Freshwater Microbiology, Scientific e-Resources, →ISBN, page 24:

[...] fens are alkaline. In fact, the precise acidity of a fen depends on the soil through which in-seeping waters have percolated. Northeastern fens vary from somewhat acidic to highly basic (Johnson, 1985, p. 27).

2023 September 26, Rick Cech, Guy Tudor, Butterflies of the East Coast: An Observer's Guide, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 15:

A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline. (Contrast bog, marsh, swamp.)

Caliban: As wicked dewe, as ere my mother bruſh'd / With Rauens feather from vnwholeſome Fen / Drop on you both : A Southweſt blow on yee, / And bliſter you all ore.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: / England hath need of thee: she is a fen / Of stagnant waters […]

1807, William Wordsworth, "England, 1802," collected in Poems (1807)

In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp / The hunted Negro lay; …

1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Slave in the Dismal Swamp, from Poems on Slavery

As the sob of the breeze/Sweeps over the trees/And the mists lie low on the fen...

1887, “When the Night Wind Howls”, W. S. Gilbert (lyrics), Arthur Sullivan (music):

He was freezing to death in the flat mud of the Suffolk fens, too proud to go home without a catch.

(loosely) Any swamp or mire (especially with negative connotations).


fen

(obsolete) Used in children's games to prevent or forestall another player's action; a check or bar.


fen

From Middle English *vene, Kentish variant of *fine, from Old English fyne (“moisture, mold, mildew”), from Proto-Germanic *funiz, *fun- (“moisture, mold”); compare vinew.

inh

[…]whereby the ſtagnating ſap corrupts, and breeds mouldy fen, which often ſpoils whole tracts of, till then, flouriſhing hop-grounds.

1769, The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry, 2nd edition, page 339:

Among these are reckoned the wire worm; the flea, and the fly; the fen or mould; the mildew ; and what are usually called fire blasts.

1808, Thomas Potts, The British Farmer's Cyclopaedia or, Complete Agricultural Dictionary, Scatcherd and Letterman, page 96:

The mould, the fen, or the mouldy-fen, prevails more on hop-grounds which are low, moist, and sheltered, than on such as are high, dry, and open[…]

1848, John Marius Wilson, editor, The Rural Cyclopedia, volume 2, A. Fullarton, page 698:

(obsolete) A kind of mildew that grows on hops.


marsh

From Middle English merssh, from Old English mersċ, merisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk, derived from *mari, equivalent to mere (“sea, body of water”) + -ish. Doublet of marish, morass, and merse. Cognate with West Frisian mersk, Dutch meers (“grassland, meadow”) and Dutch moeras, German Marsch. More at mere.

Many animals live in the marsh.

Čepkeliai Marsh consists mainly of bog.

An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants. (Compare swamp, bog, fen.)


bayou

From Cajun French bayou, from Choctaw bayuk (“creek”). Doublet of bogue.

You natural persons old and young! / You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi! / You friendly boatmen and mechanics! you roughs!

1892, Walt Whitman, “A Leaf for Hand in Hand”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 109:

A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.

At that time I had no staff officer who could be trusted with that duty. In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou.

1886, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, volume 2:

A swamp; a marshy (stagnant) body of water.


salina

A salt marsh, or salt pond, enclosed from the sea.


mire

en-verb

mire (third-person singular simple present mires, present participle miring, simple past and past participle mired)

mires (present singular third-person)
miring (participle present)
mired (participle past)
mired (past)

From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence Old English mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence Old English mos (English moss).

Why had I not with charitable hand
Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates,
Who smirch’d thus and mired with infamy,
I might have said ‘No part of it is mine;
This shame derives itself from unknown loins’?

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

(intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.


glade

From Middle English glade, glode, glede (“a gleam of light, bright space, an open space; an open or cleared space in a forest; a bright patch of sky; a bright surface of snow or ice”), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old English *glǣd, *glād, related to Old English glæd (“shining, bright”), (compare Old Norse glaðr (“bright”)).

[…] are creating more "glades," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.

2003 November 23, Newsweek, Travel, In The Trees:

[…] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.

An open space in the ice on a river or lake.


morass

From Dutch moeras (“marsh, swamp”), from Middle Dutch marasch (“marsh”), from Old French mareis, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk. Doublet of marish and marsh.

I wrote to Sacramento about that historical marker, and they've been kicking it around their bureaucratic morass for months.

1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 67:

(figurative) Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.

бало́та

anything that entraps or makes progress difficult


hag

From Middle English hagge, hegge (“demon, old woman”), shortening of Old English hægtesse, hægtes (“harpy, witch”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Häkse (“witch”), Dutch heks, German Hexe (“witch”). Doublet of hex.

A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.

A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.


hag

From Middle English hag (denoting a gap in a cliff), from Old Norse hǫgg (“cut, gap, breach”), derivative of hǫggva (“to hack, hew”). Compare English hew, Old Swedish hug (“blow, stroke”).

This said, he led me over hoults and hags; / Through thorns and bushes scant my legs I drew

1845, Edward Fairfax (tr.), Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recovery of Jerusalem: Done into English Heroical Verse, page 168:

(Northern England) A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.

And they likewise ordained […] that all the warp should be thrown into the Common wayes, to fill up haggs and lakes, where need was, upon a great penalty, where it should ly neer the Common rode.

1662, Sir William Dugdale, The History of Imbanking and Drayning of Divers Fenns and Marshes, page 292:

[…] upon wet brae-sides, peat-haggs, and flow-mosses, […]

1836, Walter Scott, Waverley Novels, page 375:

The uplands are generally mossy, resting on clay of a yellow colour, covered by moss of various depths, which often break into what are called hags, or flow-moss.

1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Ayr, Bute, page 107:

[…] I had made sure to find him in the hag o' Coars-Neuk Moor, […]

The strongest nag that crosses th' hagg / Wi wots ta Fullod mill.

1882, Joseph Senior, Smithy Rhymes and Stithy Chimes, Or, the Short and Simple Annals of the Poor, page 46:

[…] the murky flag / Flaps on Turftennant's rushy hag."

1898, Charles Spence, From the Braes of the Carse: Poems and Songs by the Late Charles Spence, page 189:

The shallow slow-running groughs fed the hag with a trickle of coppery water.

2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 101:

The winter snow has collected amongst the eroded peat hags and is being actively reshaped into deep dunes and linear ripples by the strong winds whipping across the summit ridge. In the winter light, large sandblasted granite tors, sugar-coated with ice, stand out[…]

2023 October 12, Mike Billett, Peat and Whisky: The Unbreakable Bond, Saraband, →ISBN:

A marshy hollow, especially an area of peat lying lower than surrounding moorland, formed by erosion of a gully or cutting and often having steep edges.


slack

en-noun

slack (countable and uncountable, plural slacks)

From Middle English slak, from Old English slæc (“slack”), from Proto-Germanic *slakaz. For sense of coal dust, compare slag.

(countable) A tidal marsh or shallow that periodically fills and drains.

kluuvi

tidal marsh or periodically filling shallow


slack

Probably from German Schlacke (“dross, slag”). Doublet of slag.

One of the important improvements of recent years has been attained by mixing the peat pulp as it passes through the grinding machine, with other inflammable materials, such as bituminous coal dust, or slack […]

1905, Colliery Engineer, volume 25, page 107:

It had rather a woolly and uneven beat and was inclined to prime, but there was no trouble with steaming even though the tender contained mostly small slack and dust.

1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 220:


wetland

From wet + land. Cognate with West Frisian wetlân.

European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

2013 January 29, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 2013-01-22, page 59:

(usually in the plural) Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.

vleiland

land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas


swamp

Sranan Tongo: swampu

→ Dutch: zwamp

Early attestations (starting in 1624) are from North America, but the term was probably in local use in Britain earlier. The etymology is not entirely certain; it is probably a fusion of Middle English swam (“swamp, muddy pool, bog, marsh”, also “fungus, mushroom”) — from Old English swamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), from Proto-West Germanic *swamm, from Proto-Germanic *swambaz, *swammaz — and Middle English sompe (“marsh, morass”), from either Middle Dutch somp, sump (“marsh, swamp”) or Middle Low German sump (“marsh, swamp”) (from Old Saxon *sump (“swamp, marsh”)), both from Proto-West Germanic *sump, from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz. *swambaz, *swammaz and *sumpaz are likely related to each other, but it is unclear whether they are of Indo-European origin or are substrate words or wanderworts.
The word has alternatively been suggested to be a borrowing from Dutch zwamp (“swamp, marsh, fen”). Other cognates include Middle Low German swamp (“sponge, mushroom”), Dutch zomp (“swamp, lake, marshy place”), German Low German Sump (“swamp, bog, marsh”), German Sumpf (“swamp”), Swedish sump (“swamp”). Related also to Dutch zwam (“fungus, punk, tinder”), German Schwamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), Swedish svamp (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), Icelandic svampur, sveppur (“fungus”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌿𐌼𐍃𐌻 (swumsl, “a ditch”). Related to sump, swim.

cog

Some small Marshes and Swamps there are, but more profitable than hurtfull.

1624, John Smith, Virginia IV., page 163

A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes (a type of wetland). (Compare marsh, bog, fen.)


moss

en-noun

moss (countable and uncountable, plural mosses)

From Middle English mos, from Old English mos (“bog, marsh, moss”), from Proto-West Germanic *mos (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“marsh, moss”), from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“moss”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moas (“moss”), West Frisian moas (“moss”), Dutch mos (“moss”), German Low German Moss (“moss”), German Moos (which shows the same polysemy of "moss" and "bog, fen"), Danish mos (“moss”), Swedish mossa (“moss”), Icelandic mosi (“moss”), Latin muscus (“moss”), Russian мох (mox, “moss”), Polish mech. Doublet of mousse.

cypress moss

Hypnum cupressiforme; Lycopodium alpinum

flowering moss (Pyxidanthera barbulata; Portulaca grandiflora;

moss crop

Eriophorum vaginatum; Eriophorum polystachion; Argentina anserina, syn. Potentilla anserina; Eleocharis palustris, syn. Scirpus caespitosus

willow moss

Hypnaceae, possibly Taxiphyllum barbieri

Any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).


slough

en-verb

slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed)

sloughs (present singular third-person)
sloughing (participle present)
sloughed (participle past)
sloughed (past)

From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh, from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, perhaps related to *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”) (compare Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽 (sliupan)).
Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon slūk (“snakeskin”), Middle High German slūch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).

cog

This skin is being sloughed.

Snakes slough their skin periodically.

When Harper came back into the infirmary of the Hyperion, Alec was laboriously trying to pull on his pants. His burned skin had healed over the intervening day, the damaged layer sloughed off and quickly replaced thanks to SAM’s efforts, but the buildup of waste products in Alec’s body from the accelerated healing had left him with sore muscles and achy joints.

2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 16, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 293:

(transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.

A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.

The mud sloughed off her palms easily […]

2013, Casey Watson, Mummy’s Little Helper: The heartrending true story of a young girl:

1944 United States. Bureau of Mines · War Minerals Report 386. Google books
The adit penetrated the vug ... and at this level ... it was filled with material that had ... sloughed off the walls.

An avalanche sloughing off a Utah mountainside killed a state Department of Transportation avalanche forecaster while he was surveying snow levels near a popular winter recreation area, authorities reported.

2013 April 13, Michael Mello, “Avalanche forecaster killed in Utah avalanche”, in Los Angeles Times:

(intransitive) To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.


slough

Maxwell Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

From Middle English slough (“muddy place; swamp; mire”), Old English slōh, probably from Proto-Germanic *slōhaz.

inh

We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.

At that time I had no staff officer who could be trusted with that duty. In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou.

1886, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, volume 2:

(Eastern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.

Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.

(Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.


carr

From Middle English kerr and Middle English carr meaning meadow, field or grassland of a low lying variety, itself from Old English carr; possibly related to Old Norse kjarr. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr.

The marsh lands or ‘carrs’ that covered the low-lying floor of the vale could not be cultivated and the poorly drained flanks of the vale would be best used as pasture.

2007, Kevin Leahy, The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey, Tempus, published 2008, page 16:

The old tales told of these noble animals sighted padding across clodded fields or circling shrinking copses. Stalking the choking carrs.

2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 155:


flush

Various similar terms are found in dialectal English and Scots as flash and flosh (older Scots flosche), and the variation goes back to Middle English flushe, flosche, flashe, flaske. The DSL suggests a relation between flush, English flash (“pool”), and Middle English flosche, but influence from other water-related senses of flush and flash is also conceivable.

For this point onwards the land slopes gently until it becomes quite low lying, that is, tends to become a "flush" or bog.

1917, Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, page 131

The reason for a "green gair" or flush is the outflow of a spring, and a regular line of these springs may often be traced along a valley slope.

1918, The Scottish Journal of Agriculture, volumes 1-2, page 263

The pH in water of the hillside soils varied between 3.1 and 6.1 with a mean of 4.2. The pattern of pH variation is complex and does not clearly relate either to cultivation or occupation. The most consistent, though weak, correlation appears to be between higher pH and flushes or bogs, which indicates that the local groundwaters are comparatively basic.

1995, Olwyn Owen, Christopher Lowe, Kebister: The Four-thousand-year-old Story, page 45

Suddenly a way would open down into a flush or bog, even some extensive ones where snowfed springs rose, and so did Asiatic Golden Plover with their plangent cries, and calling from high circling; and I was home again.

2007, Colin Simms, Gyrfalcon Poems, page 16

The inland distribution of Plantago maritima in Ireland and Britain is … generally associated with base-rich soils or with flushes in more acidic upland soils. … Many of these inland sites are on uplands of both acidic and basic rock. … associated with calcareous, nutrient-poor flushes, …

2012, M. J. Sheehy Skeffington, D. W. Jeffrey, "Growth performance of an inland population of Plantago maritima in response to nitrogen and salinity", in W.G. Beeftink, A.H.L. Huiskes, Jelte Rozema, Ecology of coastal vegetation: Proceedings of a Symposium, page 264

Lowland heath Fen, marsh, and swamp / Upland flushes, fens, and swamps […] Flushes are gently sloping, often linear or triangle-shaped wetlands; they may include small watercourses.

2016, Ralph W. Tiner, Wetland Indicators: A Guide to Wetland Formation

[…] Not all the flushes are as basic as might be expected in basalt country, but they do support most of the sedges found in this habitat in the Hebrides. […] in peaty fushes both on Canna and Sanday […]

2017, John Lorne Campbell, Canna: The Story of a Hebridean Island, page xvii

A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.


corrach

head

corrach m (genitive singular corraigh, nominative plural corraigh)

corraigh (genitive singular)
corraigh (nominative plural)
corrach (indefinite nominative singular)
corraigh (indefinite nominative plural)
a chorraigh (indefinite singular vocative)
a chorracha (indefinite plural vocative)
corraigh (genitive indefinite singular)
corrach (genitive indefinite plural)
corrach (dative indefinite singular)
corraigh (dative indefinite plural)
an corrach (definite nominative singular)
na corraigh (definite nominative plural)
an chorraigh (definite genitive singular)
na gcorrach (definite genitive plural)
leis an gcorrach (dative definite singular)
don chorrach (dative definite singular)
leis na corraigh (dative definite plural)

From Old Irish cuirrech, currach m (“marsh, fen”). Likely related to Welsh cors (“reeds, bog, marsh”); see there for details.


corrach

corrach (genitive singular masculine corraigh, genitive singular feminine corraí, plural corracha, comparative corraí)

corraigh (genitive masculine singular)
corraí (feminine genitive singular)
corracha (plural)
corraí (comparative)
corrach (masculine nominative singular)
chorrach (feminine nominative singular)
corracha (nominative plural)
chorracha (nominative plural)
chorraigh (masculine singular vocative)
chorrach (feminine singular vocative)
corracha (plural vocative)
chorraigh (genitive masculine singular)
corraí (feminine genitive singular)
corracha (genitive plural strong)
corrach (genitive plural weak)
corrach (dative masculine singular)
chorrach (dative masculine singular)
chorrach (dative feminine singular)
chorraigh (archaic dative feminine singular)
corracha (dative plural)
chorracha (dative plural)
níos corraí (comparative)
is corraí (superlative)
corrach (mutation mutation-radical)
chorrach (lenition mutation)
gcorrach (eclipsis mutation)

From Middle Irish corrach. By surface analysis, corr + -ach.


slump

en-verb

slump (third-person singular simple present slumps, present participle slumping, simple past and past participle slumped)

slumps (present singular third-person)
slumping (participle present)
slumped (participle past)
slumped (past)

Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“to sell off”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectal Dutch slompen (“to walk clumsily”).

cog

(transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.


swale

Possibly from Middle English swale (“a shady place, a shadow”), perhaps of North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse svalr (“cool, fresh”), Icelandic svalir (“a balcony running along a wall”).

unk

Possibly

cog

A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.

průleh

The stored water creates an underground reservoir that aids plant growth for tens of feet below the swale. Swales also prevent gullies from forming by intercepting rainwater, slowing it, spreading it, and storing it in the soil.

2009, Toby Hemenway, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:

Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.

дренаж

shallow (man-made) trough to allow water to infiltrate the soil


swale

en-verb

swale (third-person singular simple present swales, present participle swaling, simple past and past participle swaled)

swales (present singular third-person)
swaling (participle present)
swaled (participle past)
swaled (past)

Alternative form of sweal (“melt and waste away, or singe”)


mangrove

/ˈmænˌɡɹoʊv/

Circa 1610, corruption of earlier mangrow by folk etymology influence of grove, from Portuguese mangue, from Spanish mangle (or directly from Spanish), from a Caribbean language, possibly Taíno, another Arawakan language, or a Cariban language.

black mangrove)

Avicennia germinans; Aegiceras corniculatum, Bruguiera gymnorhiza

freshwater mangrove

Barringtonia, Carallia brachiata (Australia)

red mangrove

Rhizophora stylosa; Rhizophora mucronata, Heritiera littoralis (Australia)

This lush forest, just a few miles from the Guatemalan border, teems with diverse wildlife – from crocodiles and crabs to fish darting through seemingly endless mangroves.

2024 September 5, Camilo Freedman, “The vanishing mangroves of El Salvador: ‘All our efforts may only slow the destruction’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Any of various tropical evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in intertidal coastal brackish waters.

المنغروف

tropical tree or shrub that grows in shallow water

[I]n and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 204:

A habitat with such plants; mangrove forest; mangrove swamp; mangal.

Any of various plants of the Rhizophoraceae family.

Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora.


slue

Variant of slough (which is dialectally pronounced /slu/); compare slew (“wet or swampy place”).


salt marsh

From Middle English saltmarsh, saltmerssh, saltmersch, saltmerch, saltmersk, equivalent to salt + marsh.

After a succession of short runs through the salt marshes and vineyards of Languedoc, linking together many towns of considerable size, the "Catalan" joins the P.L.M. main line at Tarascon, [...].

1961 December, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750:

A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.

saltmarsh

about twice as common as salt marsh in British English


salting

en-noun

salting (countable and uncountable, plural saltings)

(UK, historical) The celebration of the Eton montem.


rit

rȋt (canonical masculine)
ри̑т (Cyrillic)


muskeg

muskeg (countable and uncountable, plural muskegs)

Here, in a decaying cluster of buildings, the Winnipeg train turns gratefully back to the south and hurries to leave behind it the anonymous tangle of forests and muskegs.

1952, Farley Mowat, People of the Deer, Key Porter, published 2005, page 2:

(Canada) A terrain composed of peat bog with tussocky meadow and woody vegetation including spruce.


močvara

mòčvara (canonical feminine)
мо̀чвара (Cyrillic)
močvara (nominative singular)
močvare (nominative plural)
močvare (genitive singular)
močvara (genitive plural)
močvari (dative singular)
močvarama (dative plural)
močvaru (accusative singular)
močvare (accusative plural)
močvaro (singular vocative)
močvare (plural vocative)
močvari (locative singular)
močvarama (locative plural)
močvarom (instrumental singular)
močvarama (instrumental plural)


мочвара

мо̀чвара (canonical feminine)
mòčvara (romanization)
мочвара (nominative singular)
мочваре (nominative plural)
мочваре (genitive singular)
мочвара (genitive plural)
мочвари (dative singular)
мочварама (dative plural)
мочвару (accusative singular)
мочваре (accusative plural)
мочваро (singular vocative)
мочваре (plural vocative)
мочвари (locative singular)
мочварама (locative plural)
мочваром (instrumental singular)
мочварама (instrumental plural)


fenn

fenn (nominative singular)
fenn (nominative plural)
fennas (nominative plural)
fenn (accusative singular)
fenn (accusative plural)
fennas (accusative plural)
fennes (genitive singular)
fenna (genitive plural)
fenne (dative singular)
fennum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: fen, fenne, ven
English: fen
Scots: fen
Yola: ven

From Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanją.

The Old English rune poem
ᛉ seċġ eard hæfþ oftust on fenne...

Elk-sedge is has its home most often in the fen...


mangal

From Portuguese mangal, from Portuguese mangue (“mangrove”) + Portuguese -al (“-al”)

Coastal, intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by mangroves or other saline woody tree and shrub.


everglade

A tract of marshland, especially one containing clumps of sawgrass and hammocks of vegetation


swampland

en-noun

swampland (countable and uncountable, plural swamplands)

(physics, countable) The set of effective low-energy physical theories that are not compatible with quantum gravity.


mudflat

The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone strongly.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:

A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a riverbed exposed at low tide.


moorland

moorland (countable and uncountable, plural moorlands)

From Middle English morelond, equivalent to moor + land. Compare Old Norse mýrlendi (“moorland”).

Troutbeck station, 10 miles from Keswick, in the heart of wild moorland, is the most isolated on the line.

1961 October, ""Voyageur"", “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:

Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.


marshland

marshland (countable and uncountable, plural marshlands)

East of Bow Creek, the line ran to North Woolwich along the bank of the Thames, then entirely uninhabited marshland, without roads.

1946 May and June, J. G. Holmes, “The North Woolwich Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 173:


mah

mȃh (canonical inanimate masculine)
mȃh (nominative singular)
mahȏva (dual nominative)
mahȏvi (nominative plural)
mahȗ (genitive singular)
mahóv (dual genitive)
mahóv (genitive plural)
mȃhu (dative singular)
mȃhi (dative singular)
mahȏvoma (dative dual)
mahȏvama (dative dual)
mahȏvom (dative plural)
mȃhȏvam (dative plural)
mȃh (accusative singular)
mahȏva (accusative dual)
mahȏve (accusative plural)
mȃhu (locative singular)
mȃhi (locative singular)
mahȏvih (dual locative)
mahȏvih (locative plural)
mȃhom (instrumental singular)
mahȏvoma (dual instrumental)
mahȏvama (dual instrumental)
mahȏvi (instrumental plural)
mȃh (singular vocative)
mahȏva (dual vocative)
mahȏvi (plural vocative)
mȃh (nominative singular)
mȃha (genitive singular)
mȃhu (dative singular)
mȃhi (dative singular)
mȃh (accusative singular)
mȃhu (locative singular)
mȃhi (locative singular)
mȃhom (instrumental singular)
mȃh (singular vocative)

sl-infl-noun

no

no


merse

Middle English merse, variant form of mersh, whence also marsh (see that entry for more).

Owing probably to the channel lying obliquely to those mud flats, the flood rushes up the river with a bore, the front wave of which may be several feet high. As a result, the loose mud is churned up by every tide and the water that inundates the merse always contains much mud in suspension. Consequently the merse must be continually increasing in height. That the siltings may be rapid in favourable circumstances is shown near Kirkconnell where mooring bollards are seen […]

1926, The Journal of Ecology, volumes 14-15, page 312

Alluvial, often marshy land by the side of a river, estuary or sea.


Everglades

Beginning this year, federal park officials will restrict airboat use to those who, in 1989, used them regularly in the eastern part of Everglades National Park near Miami. That was the year Congress passed a far-reaching law to protect and expand the park by nearly 109,000 acres, and to help it recover from engineering projects that had left the Everglades starved for water.

2016 June 11, Lizette Alvarez, “In a Corner of the Everglades, a Way of Life Ebbs”, in The New York Times:

Everglades National Park, a national park in south of the Everglades.


quag

Uncertain. Most often suggested to be an alteration of Middle English quabbe (“a marsh, bog”), from Old English *cwabbe (“that which shakes or trembles, something soft and flabby”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwabbā (“soggy ground”); this is supported by 1590s attestations of quabmire for quagmire (other earlier variants are quamire, from the 1550s, and quavemire from the 1520s). It has alternatively been suggested to be related to quake, as quaggy ground quakes when trod.

inh

If a person ventures on one of these quags, it bends in waves under his feet; and if the surface breaks, he is in danger of sinking to the bottom.

1771 December 16, John Walker, Account of the Irruption of Solway Moss:

Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells

1784, William Cowper, Tirocinium; or, a Review of Schools:


fenland

en-noun

fenland (countable and uncountable, plural fenlands)

a kind of low-lying ground, often wet or marshy


fenland

fenland (nominative singular)
fenland (nominative plural)
fenland (accusative singular)
fenland (accusative plural)
fenlandes (genitive singular)
fenlanda (genitive plural)
fenlande (dative singular)
fenlandum (dative plural)

English: fenland


bogue

From Cajun French, from Choctaw bok (“creek, stream”). Doublet of bayou.

(especially Southern US, Midland US) A bayou or waterway.


mokřad

cs-noun

mokřad m inan (related adjective mokřadní or mokřadový)

mokřadní (adjective)
mokřadový (adjective)
mokřad (nominative singular)
mokřady (nominative plural)
mokřadu (genitive singular)
mokřadů (genitive plural)
mokřadu (dative singular)
mokřadům (dative plural)
mokřad (accusative singular)
mokřady (accusative plural)
mokřade (singular vocative)
mokřady (plural vocative)
mokřadu (locative singular)
mokřadech (locative plural)
mokřadem (instrumental singular)
mokřady (instrumental plural)


rašeliniště

rašeliniště (nominative singular)
rašeliniště (nominative plural)
rašeliniště (genitive singular)
rašelinišť (genitive plural)
rašeliništi (dative singular)
rašeliništím (dative plural)
rašeliniště (accusative singular)
rašeliniště (accusative plural)
rašeliniště (singular vocative)
rašeliniště (plural vocative)
rašeliništi (locative singular)
rašeliništích (locative plural)
rašeliništěm (instrumental singular)
rašeliništi (instrumental plural)

[ˈraʃɛlɪɲɪʃcɛ]

ra‧še‧li‧ni‧š‧tě


bažina

bažina (nominative singular)
bažiny (nominative plural)
bažiny (genitive singular)
bažin (genitive plural)
bažině (dative singular)
bažinám (dative plural)
bažinu (accusative singular)
bažiny (accusative plural)
bažino (singular vocative)
bažiny (plural vocative)
bažině (locative singular)
bažinách (locative plural)
bažinou (instrumental singular)
bažinami (instrumental plural)

→ Silesian: barzina

→ Upper Sorbian: bažina

From earlier bařina, from Old Czech bařina, from Proto-Slavic *barina.


bažina

bažina (nominative singular)
bažinje (dual nominative)
bažiny (nominative plural)
bažiny (genitive singular)
bažinow (dual genitive)
bažinow (genitive plural)
bažinje (dative singular)
bažinomaj (dative dual)
bažinam (dative plural)
bažinu (accusative singular)
bažinje (accusative dual)
bažiny (accusative plural)
bažinu (instrumental singular)
bažinomaj (dual instrumental)
bažinami (instrumental plural)
bažinje (locative singular)
bažinomaj (dual locative)
bažinach (locative plural)
bažina (singular vocative)
bažinje (dual vocative)
bažiny (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Czech bažina, from Old Czech bařina, from Proto-Slavic *barina. By surface analysis, bara + -ina.


flother

en-noun

flother (countable and uncountable, plural flothers)

Uncertain. The English Place-Name Society suggests Old English *flōdor (“channel”), related to flōd (“flowing; stream; flood”), and the DSL too speculates that the word (and its synonymous Scots cognate, attested since 1611) might be related to Scots flude, English flood; alternatively, it might be related to Scots fluther, English flutter. Perhaps also compare floter. Dictionaries of dialects record several other (now rare or otherwise unattested) senses, including "froth" and "snowflake".

Alternative form: flodder

They lived in Flother (as Flodder Hall was formerly known).

[…] flothers […] The Flothers

1883, Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, volume 9, page 65

Flothers, near Slaley […] f. houses and land, Flothers

1883, The Poll Book of the Contested Election for the Southern Division of Northumberland ... December, 1832, page 126

[…] the homesteads and hamlets […] of Ryal or Ryehill, Pry, Flothers, Peel-flat, Comb-hills, Swangs, Cocklake, Palmstrothers, Black Strothers, […]

1902, Edward Bateson, Allen Banks Hinds, and the Northumberland County History Committee, A History of Northumberland, volume 6, page 363

[…] by a horse Gin and Pit 13 fms. deep (South of Flothers Wood). West of Pilmuir Wood it was also worked by an Engine Pit 11 fms . deep , but the workings were abandoned owing to heavy water , without a plan having been made.

1931, Geological Survey of Great Britain, The Economic Geology of the Fife Coalfields, volume 3, page 55

FLODDER BECK (affluent of the Mint in Docker, SD 59 SE), 1857 OS. Probably, like Flodder Hall and Flodder(s) (i, 83, 130, ii, 41, infra), and Brackenber Flodders (ii, 104 infra), from a dial. form of flother, fludder, which may well be from an OE *flōdor 'channel' suggested for the 12th-century Floder (YW iv, 86). […] Flother 1704, 1710 PR, from OE *flōdor 'channel' as in Flodder Beck (i, 7 supra).

1967, English Place-Name Society, volume 42, page 83

The Flothers, near Slaley, however, takes its name from a Swamp, that is to say where water flows over, [...]

1970, Godfrey Watson, Goodwife Hot, and Others: Northumberland's Past, page 75:

[…] Flot(t)erker 1430, Flotter Carr 1580, … 'marsh with or near a water-channel', v. *flōdor, ker, cf. ModE dial flother 'swamp, a boggy place liable to overflow in wet seasons', very common in f.ns. in Northumberland, e.g. Robinson Flothers, Henshaw, […]

2007, [Journal of the] English Place-Name Society, volume 83, page 14

(Cumberland, Northumbria, countable, now obsolete outside placenames) A miry bog.

Cumberland; now obsolete outside placenames; Cumberland; now obsolete outside placenames


peatland

Scientists have shown that palm oil is linked to such large-scale rainforest and peatland destruction that it can be hundreds of times worse for the climate than burning fossil fuels.

2009 January 8, “Letters: Laying the foundations for a greener future”, in The Guardian:

Land with peat soil, such as an active or former bog.


bogach

head

bogach m (genitive singular bogaigh, nominative plural bogaigh)

bogaigh (genitive singular)
bogaigh (nominative plural)
bogach (indefinite nominative singular)
bogaigh (indefinite nominative plural)
a bhogaigh (indefinite singular vocative)
a bhogacha (indefinite plural vocative)
bogaigh (genitive indefinite singular)
bogach (genitive indefinite plural)
bogach (dative indefinite singular)
bogaigh (dative indefinite plural)
an bogach (definite nominative singular)
na bogaigh (definite nominative plural)
an bhogaigh (definite genitive singular)
na mbogach (definite genitive plural)
leis an mbogach (dative definite singular)
don bhogach (dative definite singular)
leis na bogaigh (dative definite plural)
bogach (mutation mutation-radical)
bhogach (lenition mutation)
mbogach (eclipsis mutation)

From Old Irish bocach (“bog, moor, marsh”). By surface analysis, bog (“soft, yielding”) + -ach.


bogach

head

bogach f (genitive singular bogaich, plural bogaichean)

bogaich (genitive singular)
bogaichean (plural)
bogach
bhogach


bogland

en-noun

bogland (countable and uncountable, plural boglands)

I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27:

Even when it has been drained, the bogland does not make a very stable roadbed.

1953 May, P. W. B. Semmens, “Impressions of the Irish Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 296:

I moved west to the moody, slightly creepy bogland zone called Zangarmarsh and became my server’s first Level 62er just before noon.

2007 January 19, Seth Schiesel, “O Brave New World That Has Such Gamers in It”, in New York Times:

Land that is predominantly boggy; marshland.


boglet

In and out of the tufts they went, with their eyes dilating; wishing to be out of harm, if conscience were but satisfied. And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions.

1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter VII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, page 111:

The practical Martha was in fact advancing with an improvised leaping-pole that had already carried her neatly over the brook and would obviously bring Bundock over the boglet.

1919, Israel Zangwill, “Bundock on His Beat”, in Jinny the Carrier, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, section III, page 12:


boglet

Goodfellow and the vampire had dropped us off in the limo at the park's south entrance. […] I was again smacking the claws of the boglet above me. […] They ate muggers and joggers. […] "Don't make me shoot off the end of your tail."

2011, Rob Thurman, Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel:


lagg

Compare the dialectal (Sussex, Somerset) English term(s) lag ("long, narrow, marshy meadow, usually by the side of a stream") and leg ("long, narrow meadow, gen. one which runs out of a larger piece of land"), apparently from leg (“limb”) (as of a body, or body of water). Compare also Middle English lech(e) (“sluggish stream flowing through bog; bog”), usually attested with ch (whence English letch), but infrequently found as leg, lage in names.

m+

Coordinate term: rand

Whenever one wants to get to a typical raised bog one usually has to wade through the more or less waterlogged lagg. On the bog itself in dry weather one could walk about in light shoes without getting one's feet wet.

1988, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, page 329:

Surface-water inflow is now largely confined to the lagg, or moat, often surrounding a bog's outer margins.

1995, John Eastman, The Book of Swamp & Bog, page 124:

The very wet area around the perimeter of a (raised) bog, where water collects.


slatina

slatina (nominative singular)
slatiny (nominative plural)
slatiny (genitive singular)
slatin (genitive plural)
slatině (dative singular)
slatinám (dative plural)
slatinu (accusative singular)
slatiny (accusative plural)
slatino (singular vocative)
slatiny (plural vocative)
slatině (locative singular)
slatinách (locative plural)
slatinou (instrumental singular)
slatinami (instrumental plural)


marish

en-adj

marish (comparative more marish, superlative most marish)

more marish (comparative)
most marish (superlative)

From Middle English mareys, marys, from Anglo-Norman mareis, mereis, or from Middle French mares, marest, both from Late Latin mariscus, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk (“marsh”). Doublet of marsh and morass.

And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among,

1830, Alfred Tennyson, “The Dying Swan”, in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical:

after the manner of Cards or Maps, the utmost limits of knowne Countries, are set downe to be full of thicke marrish grounds, shady forrests, desart and uncouth places.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

At the first outset, heavy, miry ground and a matted, marish vegetation greatly delayed our progress; […]

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

(now poetic or archaic) Marshy; growing in bogs or marshes.


flotant

Old French flotant, (French flottant), present participle of floter (“to float”).

a banner flotant

(heraldry) Represented as flying (fluttering) or floating mid-air or in water.


syrtis

From Latin syrtis, from Syrtis (“Sirte, Gulf of Syrtis”), from Ancient Greek Σύρτις (Súrtis), an area of Libya proverbially treacherous for sailing owing to the effect of wind and waves on its quicksand. Doublet of Sirte.


mizzy

From Middle English misy (“swamp, bog”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English *mȳsiġ, *mīesiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *miusiju, from Proto-Germanic *miusijō (“swamp, bog”, literally “mossy place”), from Proto-Germanic *meusą (“moss, moor”), related to Old Norse mýrr ("swamp, bog, moor"; whence English mire), Middle English mes, mease, mise, mese (“moss”), from Old English mēos (“moss”). Compare also dialectal English mizzick, mizzack, mezzack, mizuk, perhaps the same word with a suffix akin to -ock.

unc

uncertain

gl

"swamp, bog, moor"; whence English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">mire</i>

They draggunt meh thro' wick thurns, o'er doytch-backs un thro' mizzies, […]

1819, Paul Bobbin, Sequel Lanc. Dial., page 39:

For miles in every direction lay the old forest of Gardomwood, a relic of primeval woodland, rich in glades and brakes, in streamlets and mizzies.

1894, R. Murray Gilchrist, Dame Inowslad:

(dialectal or obsolete) A bog or quagmire.


syrt

(archaic) Alternative form of syrtis, quicksand, bog.


pocosin

From an unknown Algonquian word, sometimes suggested to be one meaning "opening out" (the widening of a river, related to Ojibwe baakisin (“it is left open”)), or "swamp on a hill". Alternatively, perhaps related to Abenaki pôgwaso (“very shallow”).

(US) A low, wooded swamp in (especially coastal) Eastern Maryland, Virginia or the Carolinas; a palustrine wetland with deep, acidic peat soils.


pokelogan

Uncertain. Often suggested to be from an Algonquian language. Perhaps related to pocosin.
Early spellings like Pokee Login and Pocologan (found especially in place names) suggest the four-syllable pronunciation is older.

Moose sometimes wallow in pokelogans.

(Vermont, Maine) A marsh; an area of grassy ground partly covered with (generally stagnant) water adjacent or connected to a stream or lake.


apekũ

→ Portuguese: apecum


mireland

en-noun

mireland (countable and uncountable, plural mirelands)


cienega

(US) A marshy spring where groundwater bubbles to the surface.


peat bog

A bog in which the soil is formed from peat.


backswamp

backswamp (countable and uncountable, plural backswamps)

(geology) The section of a floodplain where deposits of fine silt and clay settle after a flood.


eanach

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eanach m (genitive singular eanaigh, nominative plural eanaigh)

eanaigh (genitive singular)
eanaigh (nominative plural)
eanach (indefinite nominative singular)
eanaigh (indefinite nominative plural)
a eanaigh (indefinite singular vocative)
a eanacha (indefinite plural vocative)
eanaigh (genitive indefinite singular)
eanach (genitive indefinite plural)
eanach (dative indefinite singular)
eanaigh (dative indefinite plural)
an t-eanach (definite nominative singular)
na heanaigh (definite nominative plural)
an eanaigh (definite genitive singular)
na n-eanach (definite genitive plural)
leis an eanach (dative definite singular)
don eanach (dative definite singular)
leis na heanaigh (dative definite plural)
eanach (mutation mutation-radical)
n-eanach (eclipsis mutation)
heanach (mutation prothesis-h)
t-eanach (mutation prothesis-t)

From Middle Irish enach, from Old Irish en (“water”) (+ -ach), from Proto-Celtic *ɸenos, from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”).


gyr

English: gory


corcass

Borrowed from Irish corcach (“bog, marsh, swamp”).


fever swamp

The original term sprang from the belief that the swamp itself caused illnesses such as malaria and cholera, before the role of disease vectors was understood. The political use of the term is generally attributed to the neoconservative journalist Midge Decter, as a metaphor for right-wing political extremists as breeding ground for crazy ideas.

Then Christmas Day dawned, and there was Vicksburg lifted two hundred feet above the fever swamps, her court-house shining in the morning sun.

In the evenings he sat on deck with a lantern, and men and women gathered round to listen to him telling tales about fever swamps, elephant hunts and mountains infested with leopard.

2012, Jennifer McVeigh, The Fever Tree, →ISBN:

Explorers from Bruce to Speke, Thomson and Grant, nought to penetrate its secrets, but the malarial climate, the fever swamps and tangled forests, not to speak of wild beasts and savage men, barred the way.

2013, W.A.L. Elmslie, Among the Wild Ngoni, →ISBN:

Into the fever swamps, they marched us . . . And they set us to work draining the swampland and toiling in the sun . . . . . . They set us to toiling . . . They took the white fleece of the cotton and the sweetness of the sugarcane and made them bitter and bloody with our toil . . .

2016, Ralph Ellison, John Callahan, Juneteenth, →ISBN:

An area of stagnant water and hot temperatures that acts as a breeding ground for disease vectors such as mosquitos.


raised bog

A type of bog in which the center is higher than the edges, resulting in ombrotrophic, acidic, wet habitat that is poor in mineral salts.


slať

slať (nominative singular)
slatě (nominative plural)
slatě (genitive singular)
slatí (genitive plural)
slati (dative singular)
slatím (dative plural)
slať (accusative singular)
slatě (accusative plural)
slati (singular vocative)
slatě (plural vocative)
slati (locative singular)
slatích (locative plural)
slatí (instrumental singular)
slatěmi (instrumental plural)


mossland

en-noun

mossland (countable and uncountable, plural mosslands)

[...] wet regions. The author uses the term "moos" (mossland) for "hochmoor" and defines it as an area with at least 50 cm. of peat consisting of Sphagnum or some substitute. The term "reed-swamp" is used for "flachmoor" or ...

1916, Frederic Edward Clements, Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation, page 268:

[...] swampy mossland in Cumberland : […]

1947, Norman Ellison, Our British Birds and Beasts, page 91:

[...] swampy mossland, difficult to drain. With this poor though improving agricultural land as the main basis for existence the population was sparse, resulting in very large parishes made up of small and scattered townships.

1973, John Henry Smith, The Great Human Exploit: Historic Industries of the North-west, page 2:

[...] swampy marsh, known as the Mossland : today , a path of wooden planks meanders across the marsh. As for the water, rumor has it that it never freezes over; in the middle, it is always warm. The crater has been dead for millennia ...

2013, László Krasznahorkai, Seiobo There Below, page 313:


moss-hag

[…] now a splash would be heard, followed by a roar, as some luckless wight fell into a moss hagg […]

1895, William Fraser, The Whaups of Durley, page 119


moing

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moing f (genitive singular moinge, nominative plural moingeanna)

moinge (genitive singular)
moingeanna (nominative plural)
moing (indefinite nominative singular)
moingeanna (indefinite nominative plural)
a mhoing (indefinite singular vocative)
a mhoingeanna (indefinite plural vocative)
moinge (genitive indefinite singular)
moingeanna (genitive indefinite plural)
moing (dative indefinite singular)
moingeanna (dative indefinite plural)
an mhoing (definite nominative singular)
na moingeanna (definite nominative plural)
na moinge (definite genitive singular)
na moingeanna (definite genitive plural)
leis an moing (dative definite singular)
don mhoing (dative definite singular)
leis na moingeanna (dative definite plural)
moing (mutation mutation-radical)
mhoing (lenition mutation)

From Old Irish mong, from Proto-Celtic *mongā (whence also Welsh mwng), a derivative of *monis (“neck”).


paleoswamp

A swamp that existed in the distant past.


windwatt

(ecology) A mudflat exposed as a result of wind action on water.


mersc

mersċ (canonical masculine)
mersċ (nominative singular)
mersċas (nominative plural)
mersċ (accusative singular)
mersċas (accusative plural)
mersċes (genitive singular)
mersċa (genitive plural)
mersċe (dative singular)
mersċum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: merssh, marsch, marsh, merche, mersch, mersh, mershe, merss, mersc
English: marsh, merse
Scots: mersk, merse

From Proto-West Germanic *marisk (“lake-like, marshy”).


corcach

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corcach f (genitive singular corcaí, nominative plural corcacha)

corcaí (genitive singular)
corcacha (nominative plural)
corcach (indefinite nominative singular)
corcacha (indefinite nominative plural)
a chorcach (indefinite singular vocative)
a chorcacha (indefinite plural vocative)
corcaí (genitive indefinite singular)
corcach (genitive indefinite plural)
corcach (dative indefinite singular)
corcacha (dative indefinite plural)
an chorcach (definite nominative singular)
na corcacha (definite nominative plural)
na corcaí (definite genitive singular)
na gcorcach (definite genitive plural)
leis an gcorcach (dative definite singular)
don chorcach (dative definite singular)
leis na corcacha (dative definite plural)
corcach (mutation mutation-radical)
chorcach (lenition mutation)
gcorcach (eclipsis mutation)

→ English: corcass


slatină

slatine (plural)
slatină (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
o slatină (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
slatina (accusative definite nominative singular)
slatine (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște slatine (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
slatinele (accusative definite nominative plural)
slatine (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unei slatine (dative genitive indefinite singular)
slatinei (dative definite genitive singular)
slatine (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor slatine (dative genitive indefinite plural)
slatinelor (dative definite genitive plural)
slatină (singular vocative)
slatino (singular vocative)
slatinelor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic слатина (slatina), from Proto-Slavic *soltina (“salt marsh”), from *solь (“salt”).


waterland

From water + land. Cognate with Old Frisian waterland, weterlond, Middle Low German waterlant, wāterlant, Dutch waterland, German Wasserland.


blanket bog

Describes a bog type, in which the peat is spread like a blanket over a land area.

An area of peatland where peat covers large expanses of undulating ground, forming where there is a climate of high rainfall and a low level of evapotranspiration.


泥塘

/ni³⁵ tʰɑŋ³⁵/

/ni³⁵ tʰɑŋ³⁵/


seascann

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seascann m (genitive singular seascainn, nominative plural seascainn)

seascainn (genitive singular)
seascainn (nominative plural)
seascann (indefinite nominative singular)
seascainn (indefinite nominative plural)
a sheascainn (indefinite singular vocative)
a sheascanna (indefinite plural vocative)
seascainn (genitive indefinite singular)
seascann (genitive indefinite plural)
seascann (dative indefinite singular)
seascainn (dative indefinite plural)
an seascann (definite nominative singular)
na seascainn (definite nominative plural)
an tseascainn (definite genitive singular)
na seascann (definite genitive plural)
leis an seascann (dative definite singular)
don seascann (dative definite singular)
leis na seascainn (dative definite plural)
seascann (mutation mutation-radical)
sheascann (lenition mutation)
tseascann (lenition mutation)

From Middle Irish seiscenn, from seisc (“sedge, rushes”) (modern seisc).


riasc

riasc m (genitive singular réisc, nominative plural riasca)

réisc (genitive singular)
riasca (nominative plural)
riasc (indefinite nominative singular)
riasca (indefinite nominative plural)
a réisc (indefinite singular vocative)
a riasca (indefinite plural vocative)
réisc (genitive indefinite singular)
riasc (genitive indefinite plural)
riasc (dative indefinite singular)
riasca (dative indefinite plural)
an riasc (definite nominative singular)
na riasca (definite nominative plural)
an réisc (definite genitive singular)
na riasc (definite genitive plural)
leis an riasc (dative definite singular)
don riasc (dative definite singular)
leis na riasca (dative definite plural)

From Proto-Celtic *rēskos, which could be related to English rush and Latin ruscum (“butcher's broom”). Pokorny prefers a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to set in motion, stir, move”).


slanisko

slanisko (nominative singular)
slaniska (nominative plural)
slaniska (genitive singular)
slanisek (genitive plural)
slanisk (genitive plural)
slanisku (dative singular)
slaniskům (dative plural)
slanisko (accusative singular)
slaniska (accusative plural)
slanisko (singular vocative)
slaniska (plural vocative)
slanisku (locative singular)
slaniscích (locative plural)
slaniskách (locative plural)
slaniskem (instrumental singular)
slanisky (instrumental plural)


ბათაქლუღი

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ბათაქლუღი • (batakluği) (Latin spelling batakluği)

batakluği (romanization)
ბათაქლუღი (absolutive singular)
ბათაქლუღეფე (absolutive plural)
ბათაქლუღიქ (ergative singular)
ბათაქლუღეფექ (ergative plural)
ბათაქლუღის (dative singular)
ბათაქლუღეფეს (dative plural)
ბათაქლუღიშ (genitive singular)
ბათაქლუღიშ (genitive singular)
ბათაქლუღიშიş) (genitive singular)
ბათაქლუღიშიşi) (genitive singular)
ბათაქლუღეფეშ (genitive plural)
ბათაქლუღეფეშ (genitive plural)
ბათაქლუღეფეშიş) (genitive plural)
ბათაქლუღეფეშიşi) (genitive plural)
ბათაქლუღიშე (directive singular)
ბათაქლუღეფეშე (directive plural)
ბათაქლუღიშენ (ablative singular)
ბათაქლუღეფეშენ (ablative plural)
ბათაქლუღის (locative singular)
ბათაქლუღეფეს (locative plural)
ბათაქლუღითენ (instrumental singular)
ბათაქლუღეფეთენ (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish باتاقلق (bataklık).

bor+

ოგინე ჰანთეფე ბიტტუმი ბათაქლუღი ორტტუ. ბრინძი დვორგამტეჲ. ჰანდღა ირი კალე ოფშეჲ. ართუღი ბრინძიში თარლა ვადოსკუდუ.

It used to be a swamp. They used to plant rice. Today they have filled it all up. There are no more rice fields.

ogine hantepe biťťumi batakluği orťťu. brinżi dvorgamťey. handğa iri ǩale opşey. artuği brinżişi tarla vadosǩudu.


ត្រឹប

km-noun

ត្រឹប • (trəp)


tuîuka

Nheengatu: tuyuka

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tujuk, from Proto-Tupian *tʔup.

inh+

Near-synonym: (of inorganic matter) îuka

(of organic matter) decay; deterioration


peatery

A peat bog; an area covered by peat, or from which peat is extracted.


floating bog

A floating bog drifting about in a bay from one shore to the other, touching at different points and frequently exposed to the strong winds in the middle of the bay, while in transit from bank to bank, becomes a resting place for[…]

1896, Minnesota Botanical Studies, page 999:

A floating bog is terrorizing homeowners in a cove on Lake Marie in Antioch. Homeowners and local officials said the 100-by-100-foot bog is made of vegetation and mud and is estimated to weigh 20 tons[…]

2021 January 1, Richard J. Heggen, Floating Islands: an Activity Book, Richard Heggen:

A mat of bog vegetation which floats on the surface of water; a quaking bog.


quaking bog

The turf hardens by degrees , but is still stringy when broken, and at length becomes the red turf employed as fuel. The production of the quaking bogs is as follows : […]

1821, Sir Richard Phillips, The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature, Described According to the Latest and Best Authorities, page 235:

[…] the naturalists attribute this mysterious movement to the isostatic dynamics of the quaking bog itself: their very footfall has created a rippling dynamic through the liquidity of the peat, which disturbed the distant vegetation. Yet even for these scientists, as Meredith (2002: 319) notes, this sense of an animate[…]

2020 December 15, Melanie Giles, Bog bodies: Face to face with the past, Manchester University Press, →ISBN:

A type of floating bog in which vegetation forms a floating mat on the surface of water or above very wet peat, which moves (or quakes) when walked upon.


sloughland

... an area of continuous sloughland, all more or less flooded. The land is quite useless until some system of drainage on a large scale lets the water off the surface into either Carrot river or Sipanok channel, when the soil would probably be found to be[…]

1908, Canada. Topographical Survey, Report, page 264:


carrland

[see title]

1950, Agnes Mary Conroy, The Agricultural Geography of Sandland and 'carrland' in the southern Vale of York:

[…] carrland on the regional boundary. The carrland is, properly speaking , an extension across administrative limits of country belonging to another region: it forms part of the rim of an area where post-glacial alluvium was first […]

1963, George Harry Dury, The East Midlands and the Peak, page 72:

Away from the carrlands the alluvium is distinctly riverine, with vermiculitic or smectitic clay and a silt content of around 30 per cent. It was deposited over a long period, probably from late-glacial to very recent times.

1984, Soil Survey Record of the Soil Survey of England and Wales, issues 81-85, page 16

Carrland comprises of pools or small ponds holding stands of willow and alder. There are several such carrs in north and north-east Nottinghamshire, but this is the only tract of carrland that I am aware of to the west.

2010, Keith Taylor, Exploring Nottinghamshire:


peatry

[…] his peatry, as I hear, / By virtue of his daughter, makes thousands a year.

1868, James Maidment, A Book of Scotish Pasquils, 1568-1715, page 225

[...] the peatries and turbaries, the coal fields, quarries, stone, and limestone; […]

1878, John Mackintosh, The History of Civilisation in Scotland, page 232:

[...] had a peatry which yielded thousands annually; […]

1895, John Mackintosh, The History of Civilisation in Scotland, page 346:

Here also are the peatries, where no end of that valuable commodity may yet be had.

(rare, especially Scotland) Alternative form of peatery.