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"text": "The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.",
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},
{
"ref": "1860, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The professor at the breakfast-table: with the story of Iris",
"text": "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.",
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{
"ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.",
"text": "But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build on.",
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},
{
"ref": "2021 November 3, Paul Stephen, “As far north as you can go... to Thurso”, in RAIL, number 943, page 49",
"text": "As well as being a magnet for wildlife, Flow Country is also special for its valuable role in mitigating climate change, as the boggy ground provides a huge natural sink for carbon dioxide.",
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"Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation."
],
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"muddy",
"muddy"
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{
"word": "marshy"
},
{
"word": "swampy"
},
{
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}
],
"translations": [
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "močurliv",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "мочурлив"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "blatist",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "блатист"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "pantanós"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "marécageux"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "brañento"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "marshoza"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "marshatra"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "mutaisikko"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "abarach"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "paluster"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "staigns"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "purvains"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "muklains"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "mukls"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "mawharu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "tāpokopoko"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "pōharuharu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "pōwharuwharu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "tāoruoru"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "hāpoko"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "kōrengarenga"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "myrete"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "myret"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "bagnisty"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "bagienny"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bolótistyj",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "боло́тистый"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aquitrinoso"
}
]
}
],
"word": "boggy"
}
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"form": "boggier",
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"text": "The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1860, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The professor at the breakfast-table: with the story of Iris",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.",
"text": "But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build on.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 November 3, Paul Stephen, “As far north as you can go... to Thurso”, in RAIL, number 943, page 49",
"text": "As well as being a magnet for wildlife, Flow Country is also special for its valuable role in mitigating climate change, as the boggy ground provides a huge natural sink for carbon dioxide.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation."
],
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"bog",
"bog"
],
[
"dank",
"dank"
],
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"squishy",
"squishy"
],
[
"muddy",
"muddy"
],
[
"water",
"water"
]
],
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{
"word": "marshy"
},
{
"word": "swampy"
},
{
"word": "marshy"
}
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "močurliv",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "мочурлив"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "blatist",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "блатист"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "pantanós"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "marécageux"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "brañento"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "marshoza"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "marshatra"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "mutaisikko"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "abarach"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "paluster"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "staigns"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "purvains"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "muklains"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "mukls"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "mawharu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "tāpokopoko"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "pōharuharu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "pōwharuwharu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "tāoruoru"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "hāpoko"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "kōrengarenga"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "myrete"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "myret"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "bagnisty"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "bagienny"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bolótistyj",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"word": "боло́тистый"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aquitrinoso"
}
],
"word": "boggy"
}
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