The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome,boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.
1860,Oliver Wendell Holmes,The professor at the breakfast-table: with the story of Iris:
Offer a bulky andboggy bun to the suspected individual just ten minutes before dinner. If this is eagerly accepted and devoured, the fact of youth is established.
But themight-have-been is butboggy ground to build on.
2021 November 3, Paul Stephen, “As far north as you can go... to Thurso”, inRAIL, number943, page49:
As well as being a magnet for wildlife, Flow Country is also special for its valuable role in mitigating climate change, as theboggy ground provides a huge natural sink for carbon dioxide.
