boggy

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The ground near this place is boggy, and animals should be watered with buckets.

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  1. Containing bogs; full of bogs; like or having the character of a bog. Quench'd in a boggy Syrtis, neither sea Nor good dry land. Milton, P. L., ii. 939.

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  • Surely our men should have returned by now, if only to say that they found no better place than this boggy island Last night Marthi wept and said that the Satrap deliberately sent us to our deaths. —  Legends II
  • However, the peep-map informed him that another twenty miles would bring them out of this boggy area and into more open country again. —  Analog January, 1971
  • The robber left on foot, and a search dog brought in from Placer County tracked him to a boggy area behind the Rite Aid Pharmacy, where the dog lost the scent. —  The Union - All Categories
  • Step across the wooden gate in the fence and then continue in the same direction for just a few more feet - across a boggy area - and then turn left to head up the fellside on a narrow path. —  Whitehaven News headlines
  • After about four miles, you'll emerge from the trees into Wigwam Park, a boggy area of willows and ponds filled with tiny brook trout. —  RockyMountainNews.com
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