a. [f. BOG sb. + -Y1.] Of the nature of, or characterized by, bog; swampy.
1586. J. Hooker, Girald. Irel., in Holinshed, II. 168. Passed through the boggie mounteine of Slewlougher into Kerrie.
1652. French, Yorksh. Spa, ii. 5. Drunk up by some boggie, spongious earth.
1667. Milton, P. L., II. 939. Quencht in a Boggie Syrtis, neither Sea Nor good dry Land.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., I. s.v. Fir tree, Venice and Amsterdam are built on Piles of this timber driven into boggy Places.
1872. Jenkinson, Guide Eng. Lakes (1879), 104. Composed of rocky hillocks and boggy hollows.
fig. 1644. Quarles, Barnabas and B., 44. Let me drain my boggy soul from those corrupted inbred humours.
b. transf. Of a soft, spongy consistency; flabby.
1664. H. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 66. Carried with the Bloud … up into the Brain, and there by that lax and boggy substance are imbibed.
1852. Fraser’s Mag., XLV. 639. The flesh boggy to the touch.
