What's the difference between boggy and bogy?

Boggy


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Men characteristically present with lower tract symptoms, often epididymitis, a cystic or boggy periprostatic mass on rectal examination and ipsilateral nonvisualization on excretory urography.
  • (2) Richard Boggis-Rolfe, chief executive of Odgers Berndtson, said: "I have accepted Johnny's resignation as an adviser with regret.
  • (3) Emma Boggis, chief executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance , which represents more than 320 sports governing bodies and about 8,000 sports clubs, said she was pleased the government was wasting no time in developing a new approach.
  • (4) Patients presented with thick-roofed blisters and denuded, red, boggy areas of mucosa.
  • (5) It crosses a flat boggy area and then descends steeply to the shore where you will find a pebbly beach; the far end is sandy.
  • (6) Boggy congestion was present in two with cystoid edema.
  • (7) The crash site was surrounded by water and boggy land, hampering access, Smith said.
  • (8) For the release the new beavers, both around two years old, were carried in separate crates through a boggy field down to the riverbank, where the team of wildlife experts had constructed two lodges for them in a quiet spot under willow trees.
  • (9) But it was a profitable marriage in 1677 that secured boggy farmland in what became the Mayfair and Belgravia areas of London that really cemented the family fortunes.
  • (10) Instead, continue on your grassy, often boggy, path, heading south then southwest.
  • (11) We performed 16 synovectomies of the knee in 14 children, adolescents, and young adults with hemophilia A for boggy synovium due to hemophilia.
  • (12) Builders laid logs and brushwood on the boggy ground before building it up in layers, finishing with gravel and rammed clay still so solid and sound it looks modern.
  • (13) The Forest of Bowland , a striking landscape of boggy, open upland carpeted with heather and bracken, is home to some of the last breeding pairs of hen harriers in England.
  • (14) Though the route is relatively easy it can be very boggy beyond Blea Tarn, so wear appropriate footwear.
  • (15) We then scaled boggy slopes on tank-style metal treads.
  • (16) We recommend retrograde urethrography in male patients with a pelvic fracture or significant lower abdominal or perineal trauma without a fracture when associated with gross hematuria, a bloody urethral discharge, inability to void, swelling, ecchymosis or hematoma of the perineum or penis, or a "high-riding" or boggy prostate.
  • (17) At the end of the Nanjing Road, the buildings seemed to part like curtains, and there was the Huangpu river and, beyond, Pudong, until 1990 a boggy swampland, but now packed tight with skyscrapers of every imaginable, and some unimaginable, shape and size – Shanghai's iconic and totemic billboard for the restlessness and energy that is modern China.
  • (18) The progression of upper airway edema in 14 patients was characterized by obliteration of the aryepiglottic folds, arytenoid eminences, and interarytenoid areas by boggy, edematous tissue that prolapsed to occlude the airway.
  • (19) Phil Burston, water policy officer at the RSPB, said: "Wading birds like lapwings, redshanks and avocets rely on shallow pools and boggy marshes.
  • (20) They hate tap water, but need a boggy environment; in summer, sit plants in a tray with rainwater half an inch up their plastic pots.

Bogy


Definition:

  • (n.) A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The catch is that the wine has been spiked with an extinguished cigarette, bogies, phlegm, piss and maggots; Ryle tackles it with vigour.
  • (2) Furthermore, sphingosine prevents the PMA-induced increase in pHin in BoGi cells, and phosphorylation of an 80 kDa protein in 3T3 cells, but not the serum-induced alkalinization in either BoGi or 3T3 cells.
  • (3) There were pathological findings only in liver, presenting manifested parenchymatous distrophy involving hepatocytes centraly located after administration of 250 mg of basfungine per kg of bogy weight, but after administration of 125 mg per kg of body weight there was only acute venous stasis.
  • (4) In the Salt Bistro , I chat to Stefán Bogi Sveinsson who was president of the council at that time.
  • (5) He was also the bad-ass bogie-monster who presided over the Mayan’s popular ballgame, an event which more often than not culminated in a ritual human sacrifice.
  • (6) Addition of serum to BoGi cells, on top of saturating doses of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), results in a further cytoplasmic alkalinization.
  • (7) The erstwhile champion collapsed in a flurry of missed strokes and more bogies than a flu-ridden primary school assembly to throw away a chance of victory at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

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