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boggy

adj
/ˈbɑ.ɡi/US

Etymology

From bog + -y.

  1. derived from *-ākos✻
  2. derived from -ach
  3. derived from *buggos✻
  4. derived from bog
  5. derived from bogach
  6. inherited from bog
  7. formed as boggy — “bog + -y”

Definitions

  1. Having the qualities of a bog

    Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.

    • The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.
    • Offer a bulky and boggy bun to the suspected individual just ten minutes before dinner. If this is eagerly accepted and devoured, the fact of youth is established.
    • But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build on.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at boggy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01boggy02vegetation03vegetable04roots05root06anchors07anchor08moor09marshy

A definitional loop anchored at boggy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at boggy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA