boggy

boggy

wet and spongy; containing bogs: a boggy field
Not to be confused with:bogey – in golf, to score one stroke over par on a hole: He made a bogey on the last hole.bogy – a hobgoblin; something that haunts, harasses, or frightens

bog

B0366800 (bôg, bŏg)n.1. a. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.b. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.2. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.3. Chiefly British Slang A restroom or toilet.v. bogged, bog·ging, bogs v.tr.1. To cause to sink in a bog: The bus got bogged down in the muddy road.2. To hinder or slow: The project got bogged down in haggling about procedures.v.intr. To be hindered and slowed.

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[Irish Gaelic bogach, from bog, soft; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]

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bog′gi·ness n.bog′gy adj.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

boggy - (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"marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged, squashy, sloppywet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"

boggy

adjective marshy, muddy, waterlogged, spongy, swampy, soft, yielding, fenny, oozy, miry, quaggy a green patch at the far end of a boggy field

Translations

多沼泽的

bog

(bog) noun very wet ground; marsh. 泥塘，沼澤 泥塘，沼泽 ˈboggy adjectiveboggy ground. 沼澤的 多沼泽的be bogged down to be hindered in movement; to be prevented from making progress. The tractor is bogged down in the mud. 陷入泥沼，陷於困境 陷于困境