"boggy" meaning in English

See boggy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-boggy.wav Forms: boggier [comparative], boggiest [superlative]
Etymology: From bog + -y. Etymology templates: {{af|en|bog|-y}} bog + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} boggy (comparative boggier, superlative boggiest)
  1. Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation. Synonyms: marshy, swampy, marshy Derived forms: boggily, bogginess, unboggy Translations (having the qualities of a bog): мочурлив (močurliv) (Bulgarian), блатист (blatist) (Bulgarian), pantanós (Catalan), marécageux (French), brañento (Galician), marshoza (Ido), marshatra (Ido), mutaisikko (Ingrian), abarach (Irish), paluster (Latin), staigns (Latvian), purvains (Latvian), muklains (Latvian), mukls (Latvian), mawharu (Maori), tāpokopoko (Maori), pōharuharu (Maori), pōwharuwharu (Maori), tāoruoru (Maori), hāpoko (Maori), kōrengarenga (Maori), myrete (Norwegian Bokmål), myret (Norwegian Bokmål), باتاق (batak) (Ottoman Turkish), bagnisty (Polish), bagienny (Polish), боло́тистый (bolótistyj) (Russian), aquitrinoso [masculine] (Venetan)

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          "sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
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          "sense": "having the qualities of a bog",
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