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Boggy vs Oggy - What's the difference?

boggy | oggy |

As an adjective boggy

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

As a noun oggy is

(uk|dialect|cornwall) a cornish pasty.

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

    oggy

    English

    Noun

    (oggies)
  • (UK, dialect, Cornwall) A Cornish pasty.
  • * 2004 , Keith Heller, The Woman Who Knew Gandhi (page 81)
    • I was given them by a delightful Cornish lady who was quite taken with me and used to make the most delicious tiddy oggy pasties.
  • * 2012 , Max Cryer, Curious English Words and Phrases (page 257)
    • Miners ate oggies down the Cornish mines, and one of Henry VIII's wives wrote a letter mentioning Cornish pasties