bogland en · NOUN
Etymology
From bog + land.
Meanings
-
(countable, uncountable) Land that is predominantly boggy; marshland.
I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27:I moved west to the moody, slightly creepy bogland zone called Zangarmarsh and became my server’s first Level 62er just before noon.
2007 January 19, Seth Schiesel, “O Brave New World That Has Such Gamers in It”, in New York Times:Even when it has been drained, the bogland does not make a very stable roadbed.
1953 May, P. W. B. Semmens, “Impressions of the Irish Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 296:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| boglands | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (9)
mr दलदल (Translations) · fi suomaa (Translations) · ga móin (Translations) · fi suo (Translations) · pl torfowisko (Translations) · mr पाणथळ जमीन (Translations) · de Regenmoor (Translations) · ga riasc (Translations) · sv myrmark (Translations)