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boggy

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • bŏ′-ɡē
  • US: /ˈbɑ.ɡi/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɒɡi

1

adj

Meaning 1

Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: marshy, swampy, boggish, boggy, fennish, fenny, marish, miry, moorish, moory, morassy, paludal, paludine, paludinous, palustral, palustrine, palustrous, poachy, quaggy, queachy, sloughy, slumpy, spewy, swaly, swampish, syrtic, uliginous, wiery

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

(of soil) soft and watery

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the ground was boggy under foot
  • a marshy coastline
  • miry roads
  • wet mucky lowland
  • muddy barnyard
  • quaggy terrain
  • the sloughy edge of the pond
  • swampy bayous

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English bog Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English boggy From bog + -y.

Across languages

Translations

28 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: мочурлив (močurliv) — having the qualities of a bog
  • Bulgarian: блатист (blatist) — having the qualities of a bog
  • Catalan: pantanós — having the qualities of a bog
  • French: marécageux — having the qualities of a bog
  • Galician: brañento — having the qualities of a bog
  • Ido: marshoza — having the qualities of a bog
  • Ido: marshatra — having the qualities of a bog
  • Ingrian: mutaisikko — having the qualities of a bog
  • Irish: abarach — having the qualities of a bog
  • Latin: paluster — having the qualities of a bog
  • Latvian: staigns — having the qualities of a bog
  • Latvian: purvains — having the qualities of a bog
  • Latvian: muklains — having the qualities of a bog
  • Latvian: mukls — having the qualities of a bog
  • Māori: mawharu — having the qualities of a bog
  • Māori: tāpokopoko — having the qualities of a bog
  • Māori: pōharuharu — having the qualities of a bog
  • Māori: pōwharuwharu — having the qualities of a bog
  • Māori: tāoruoru — having the qualities of a bog
  • Māori: hāpoko — having the qualities of a bog
  • Māori: kōrengarenga — having the qualities of a bog
  • Norwegian Bokmål: myrete — having the qualities of a bog
  • Norwegian Bokmål: myret — having the qualities of a bog
  • Polish: bagnisty — having the qualities of a bog
  • Polish: bagienny — having the qualities of a bog
  • Russian: боло́тистый (bolótistyj) — having the qualities of a bog
  • Ottoman Turkish: باتاق (batak) — having the qualities of a bog
  • Venetan: aquitrinoso — having the qualities of a bog