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Bogy

Bogy (French pronunciation: ​[bɔʒi]; Occitan: Bògi) is a commune of the Ardèche department in southern France.

Boggy

An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.

Bogy

One of several wheels or supporting and aligning rollers inside the tread of a tractor or tank.

Boggy

Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.

Bogy

Chiefly British See truck.
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Boggy

An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.

Bogy

Variant of bogey.

Boggy

Chiefly British Slang A restroom or toilet.

Bogy

Variant of bogie1.

Boggy

To cause to sink in a bog
The bus got bogged down in the muddy road.
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Bogy

(also bgē, bgē) An evil or mischievous spirit; a hobgoblin.

Boggy

To hinder or slow
The project got bogged down in haggling about procedures.

Bogy

(also bgē, bgē) A cause of annoyance or harassment.

Boggy

To be hindered and slowed.

Bogy

A golf score of one stroke over par.

Boggy

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.

Bogy

Chiefly British The number of strokes that a good player is likely to need to finish a golf hole or course.

Boggy

Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

Bogy

(Slang) An unidentified flying aircraft.

Boggy

(of soil) soft and watery;
The ground was boggy under foot
A marshy coastline
Miry roads
Wet mucky lowland
Muddy barnyard
Quaggy terrain
The sloughy edge of the pond
Swampy bayous

Bogy

(Slang) A detective or police officer.

Bogy

Chiefly British Slang A piece of dried or semisolid nasal mucus; a booger.

Bogy

To play (a hole in golf) scoring one stroke over par.

Bogy

Alternative form of bogey

Bogy

Alternative form of bogie

Bogy

A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.
There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages.

Bogy

An unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft

Bogy

An evil spirit

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