What's the difference between boggy and soggy?

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.

Soggy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While none of the fears that have rattled markets are yet realised, the relentless focus on possible risks will likely see another soggy Asia-Pacific trading session.
  • (2) If you're on the lookout for gristle on a stick, or deep-fried nearly-meat and soggy chips, it's your lucky night.
  • (3) It has what Hab's design director, Isabel Allen, calls a "muddy, soggy landscape" which has the added benefit that it is fun for children to play in it.
  • (4) The record sheet rapidly dissolved into a soggy pulp of blood and chlorine.
  • (5) Unlike Mary, though, Birgitta is not obsessed with "soggy bottoms" but "dödbakade bottnar" ("deadbaked bottoms"), and I can't see Birgitta pulling off soignée Mary's Zara silk bomber.
  • (6) Frankly, there's too much 'can't do' sogginess around.
  • (7) We were turned back," said Umm Anis, a widow living in a soggy tent with her daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren.
  • (8) The women had no electricity and no roof – merely a soggy fabric tarpaulin stretched between two walls.
  • (9) 8.15pm BST Ruby doesn't know what to do with her un-soggy, practically perfect pie.
  • (10) Dance, who was flooded five years ago, said he was sorry for those going through the soggy misery he endured then.
  • (11) The cold winter, reasonably decent summer and good old-fashioned spring and autumn benefited many kinds of fauna that had suffered through previous mild wet winters and soggy summers.
  • (12) At a soggy, fraught Carrow Road Sunderland eased their way to victory over Norwich City that left the home team looking ominously deflated.
  • (13) "It's just that lacklustre industrial production data, the soggy July monthly services reading and mediocre retail sales have undermined faith in a super-strong outcome," Clarke said.
  • (14) Your country – your soggy, soggy country – needs you.
  • (15) Another surprise is the make-up of a group of yes campaigners out on a soggy night delivering leaflets round Barmulloch, another of the deprived areas of Glasgow's East End.
  • (16) Still, we could have done with a Jubilee-style cutaway to the sodden picnickers sitting on drenched rugs, clutching rain-diluted fizz as their bottoms, now unquestionably soggy, sank into the mud.
  • (17) Now, whenever I'm afraid of something, I just say, man, I'm not going to get soggy; I'm just going to go into it.
  • (18) A utumn in the North Cascades National Park and soggy clouds cling to the peaks of the mountains that inspired the musings of Beat poets such as Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg 60 years ago.
  • (19) The next day, our children's Christmas concert – always a soggy-necked display of intense love and pride – wasn't shared by my husband, and I felt sad and guilty to be there alone.
  • (20) The journey has caused the burger to steam into greyness, glueing itself to its soggy bun.The £32 steak appears, cowering in the corner of its container like a whipped puppy.