boggy

English - Turkish

Definition of boggy in English Turkish dictionary

bataklı

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batak

{s} bataklık

English - English

Definition of boggy in English English dictionary

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

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

{a} marshy, swampy, fenny, watery, soft

{s} swampy, marshy

Boggy land is very wet and muddy land. boggy ground is wet and muddy bog

Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land

(of soil) soft and watery; "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"

Related Terms

boggier

Comparative form of boggy; more boggy

boggiest

Superlative form of boggy; most boggy

Hyphenation

bog·gy

Synonyms

marshy, swampy

Etymology

[ 'bäg, 'bog ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English , from Scottish Gaelic and Irish bog- , from bog marshy, literally, soft, from Middle Irish bocc; probably akin to Old English bugan to bend; more at BOW.