Boggy means soft and wet underfoot. Boggy ground, a boggy field, gone boggy in the rain.
It is the word for ground that takes a boot and keeps it, which is a real difference from merely muddy. A boggy corner of a field is usually a spring or a broken drain, and it stays boggy in a dry summer.
1adjectiveboggySoft and wet underfoot.
“The path across the moor was boggy, and my boots sank into the mud.”
boggy is a quality.
From bog + -y.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Farm & Countryside