An area of land consisting of bogs; a landscape that is primarily boggy, marshy, and covered in peat.
From 'bog' (Irish/Scottish Gaelic 'bogach') + 'land' (Old English 'lond' meaning terrain or territory). Compound word describing a geographic region characterized by boggy conditions.
Ireland and Scotland are so famous for bogland that when the Irish emigrated to America, they had to learn entirely new landscape words—bogland was replaced by swamp and marsh, showing how geography shapes immigrant vocabulary.
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