BOG, BOGGY
ADJECTIVES
1593 ► QUEACHY → QUEECHY boggy; swampy → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1610 ► QUAGGY boggy; that shakes under foot; full of quags; soft
1700 ► LAIRY boggy, miry, swampy
19C.. ► VOGGY boggy, swampy → Sc.
1823 ► SLUMPY boggy; marshy, swampy, muddy → orig. Eng. dial.
1825 ► WAUCHIE boggy; swampy → Sc. obs.
1829 ► SUMPY boggy, miry, swampy → Eng. dial.
1841 ► SANKY boggy, spongy → Eng. dial.
1843 ► BUTTERMILK boggy; having the characteristics of a marsh → Amer. dial.
1881 ► QUOBBY boggy; marshy → Eng. dial.
1900 ► GOGGY boggy, soppy, as marsh land → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► MIZZICKY boggy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1138 ► LETCH a bog; a muddy ditch or hole; a stream flowing through boggy land → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1330 ► CARR a bog or fen; wet boggy ground → Eng. dial.
1425 ► SUMP a bog; a marsh, a swamp, a morass
1425 ► SUMPT a bog; a marsh, a swamp → obs.
1535 ► QUAW a bog, a quagmire, a marsh → Sc.
1552 ► SOG a soft or marshy piece of ground; boggy land; a swamp; a quagmire → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1555 ► QUAMIRE a bog; a quagmire → obs.
1578 ► SUG a bog; a marsh, a swamp → obs.
1589 ► QUAG a boggy or marshy spot
1627 ► QUAB a bog; a marshy spot → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1653 ► QUAGGINESS a boggy or quaggy condition
1669 ► POLDER a marsh; a piece of marshy or boggy land → Eng. dial.
1679 ► MIZZEY → MIZZY a soft boggy place; a quagmire → Eng. dial.
1762 ► WAGGLE → WUGGLE a bog; a marsh, a pool → Sc.
1780 ► CURRAGH a bog; a marsh, a fen; an area of wetland → Ireland
1790 ► MIMMAM a bog → Eng. dial.
E19.. ► SLUMP a boggy or muddy place; a marsh; a swamp → Eng. dial.
1806 ► MUSKEG a swamp or bog consisting of a mixture of water and partly dead vegetation, often covered by moss → chiefly Can.
1837 ► BABANQUA a quaking bog, a quagmire → Sc.
1841 ► SANCOME a bog; a quagmire; a flat, spongy piece of ground → Eng. dial.
1841 ► SANCOMMY bog land → Eng. dial. obs.
1847 ► MIZZICK a boggy place → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1850 ► GOG a bog, a quagmire → Eng. dial.
1876 ► QUOB a bog; a marshy spot; a quagmire; a quicksand → Eng. dial.
1889 ► LAIR-HOLE a boggy spot; a muddy hole → Eng. dial.
1890 ► MUSKEG a bog; a marsh → Amer. dial.
1897 ► YARF a peat-bog, a swamp → Sc.
1900 ► FEATHER BED a bog, a quagmire → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► QUEACHY wet, boggy land which requires draining → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► VOG a bog; a swamp → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOBBINQUA a quaking bog → Sc. (Bk.)
1976 ► LAIR → LARE a wet, boggy or muddy spot; a mire → Sc.
1987 ► LOON SHIT boggy land → Can. sl.
VERBS
1572 ► LAIR → LARE to stick or sink in bog or mire; to become bogged
1777 ► QUAIL to tremble under foot; said of wet, boggy land → Eng. dial.
1812 ► IMBOG to engulf as in a bog → Sc. obs.