boggy

From bog +‎ -y.

boggy (comparative boggier, superlative boggiest)

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

   Synonyms: marshy, swampy

   The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.

   • Oliver Wendell Holmes, The professor at the breakfast-table: with the story of Iris

     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.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 4,

     But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build on.