boggy, a.
(ˈbɒgɪ)
[f. bog n. + -y1.]
Of the nature of, or characterized by, bog; swampy.
| 1586 J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 168 Passed through the boggie mounteine of Slewlougher into Kerrie. 1652 French Yorksh. Spa ii. 5 Drunk up by some boggie, spongious earth. 1667 Milton P.L. ii. 939 Quencht in a Boggie Syrtis, neither Sea Nor good dry Land. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. I. s.v. Fir tree, Venice and Amsterdam are built on Piles of this timber driven into boggy Places. 1872 Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 104 Composed of rocky hillocks and boggy hollows. |
| fig. 1644 Quarles Barnabas and B. 44 Let me drain my boggy soul from those corrupted inbred humours. |
b. transf. Of a soft, spongy consistency; flabby.
| 1664 H. Power Exp. Philos. i. 66 Carried with the Bloud..up into the Brain, and there by that lax and boggy substance are imbibed. 1852 Fraser's Mag. XLV. 639 The flesh boggy to the touch. |