What's the difference between boggy and foggy?

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.

Foggy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.
  • (superl.) Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Foggy feast Well done Carl Fogarty, the most successful world superbike racing champion ever, now known to a new generation as the winner of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here .
  • (2) With wild-type (Foggi variant) (nuclease wt) and the substrates thymidine 3'-phosphate 5'-(p-nitrophenyl phosphate) (PNPdTp), thymidine 3'-methylphosphonate 5'-(p-nitrophenyl phosphate) (PNPdTp*Me), and thymidine 5'-(p-nitrophenyl phosphate) (PNPdT), kcat remains nearly constant at 13 min-1.
  • (3) Overnight, Cuba’s flag was quietly added to the others that adorn the lobby of the State Department’s headquarters in Foggy Bottom.
  • (4) "It's started off foggy, then it cleared for a time but then it came down again," said a Heathrow spokeswoman.
  • (5) Effects of exposure to acidic pollutants have not been studied under foggy conditions; thus there is no directly relevant information from which to estimate the health risk.
  • (6) When watching a monochromatic Ganzfeld, three wavelength-related phenomena are perceived: (1) the field turns achromatic; (2) the initially bright field fades into a dark or a foggy, gray field; and (3) a sensation of an additional darkness is experienced upon light turn off.
  • (7) The chamber is so foggy that they must have difficulty recognising one another.
  • (8) Dumped by my agency to fend for myself, my foggy mind and I (a mind that could not remember conversations held just moments prior or how to use a parking meter) visited numerous specialists for answers.
  • (9) Havel, they implied, was a foggy-minded, impractical idealist.
  • (10) Former world superbike champion Carl “Foggy” Fogarty has been crowned king of the jungle on I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
  • (11) Donations to the official pro-independence campaign for the most recent reporting period from 25 July to 21 August included £50,000 from Elizabeth Topping, the wife of the former William Hill chief executive Ralph Topping, and £75,000 from Randall Foggie, an SNP council candidate from Kirkcaldy.
  • (12) It stinks from the top of Capitol Hill to the luxury hotel lobby on Pennsylvania Avenue, all the way to the depths of Foggy Bottom.
  • (13) In the distance, the skyscrapers of downtown LA look foggy and unreal, like a painted movie backdrop awaiting an alien invasion.
  • (14) As we drive along Dartmoor’s foggy lanes, Alex tells me that today’s visitors often stumble across similarly fluorescent beasts – but these are less scary glow-in-the-dark ponies, painted with reflective paint to make them more visible to drivers.
  • (15) [Their sexuality] could have a practical use, spiritually.” In other words, for Arca, the foggy place between the black and white, male and female, and easy and uneasy listening is the most authentic place to be, artistically: “Maybe the real truth is drawing strength from the grey.” In turn, his vivid concepts come alive with Kanda, like the Chris Cunningham to Arca’s Aphex Twin.
  • (16) Arguments about God's will and the publication of foggy guidelines aren't sufficient to cope with the challenges ahead.
  • (17) The results of the experiment showed that the period between the time when the average score of Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS) reached point four (a little foggy) and the rising time was gradually decreased by repetition of the 22 h-wake and 8 h-sleep cycle.
  • (18) Under foggy conditions (mean droplet size 10 microns, temperature 50 degrees F), no marked effects on lung function were found.
  • (19) They are like two guys on a foggy night huddling together for comfort.
  • (20) They send the message that Australia’s benighted isolation on a lonely island lost in the middle of a foggy sea must be terminated.