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Boggy vs Boglet - What's the difference?

boggy | boglet |

As an adjective boggy

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

As a noun boglet is

a small patch of boggy ground.

boggy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (having the qualities of a bog) marshy, swampy

    boglet

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small patch of boggy ground.
  • * 1919 , Israel Zangwill, Jinny the Carrier :
    • The practical Martha was in fact advancing with an improvised leaping-pole that had already carried her neatly over the brook and would obviously bring Bundock over the boglet .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A supernatural being.
  • * 2011 , Rob Thurman, Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel ,
    • Goodfellow and the vampire had dropped us off in the limo at the park's south entrance. [...] I was again smacking the claws of the boglet above me. [...] They ate muggers and joggers. [...] "Don't make me shoot off the end of your tail."

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