Wet, soft, and marshy like a bog; describing land that is waterlogged and difficult to walk through.
From 'bog' (Irish/Scottish Gaelic 'bogach' meaning soft) + '-y' (Old English suffix creating adjectives). The '-y' suffix transforms nouns into adjectives describing the quality or characteristic.
Bog-related words dominate the landscapes of Ireland and Scotland, and all came from Gaelic languages—it's why English borrowed so much bog vocabulary; it simply didn't have words for those marshy terrains when Germanic settlers met Celtic landscapes.
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