boggy
Adjective Satellite
- (of soil) soft and watery
- "the ground was boggy under foot"
Adj
- Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.
Adjective
- Marshy, swampy, or waterlogged.
Examples
- After a few poor plays, the board felt BOGGY, making good words harder to find.
- The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.
Origin / Etymology
From bog + -y.
Synonyms
marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged, boggish, boggy, fennish, fenny, marish, moorish, moory, morassy, paludal, paludine, paludinous, palustral, palustrine, palustrous, poachy, queachy, slumpy, spewy, swaly, swampish, syrtic, uliginous, wiery
Scrabble Score: 12
boggy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordboggy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
boggy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary