Lexicographical Neighbors of Boggish
Literary usage of Boggish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton (1882)
"A young fellow riding down a steep hill, doubting if the foot of it was boggish,
called out to a clown that was ditching, and asked if it was hard at the ..."
2. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"A young Fellow riding down a steep Hill, and doubting that the Foot of it was
boggish, call'd out to a Clown that was ditching, and ask'd him, ..."
3. An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the by George Hill (1877)
"... which is free from unseemliness and fitter for some mountainous and boggish
grounds than the long Plough, as is now begun and practised in the barony of ..."
4. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1873)
"Slot, v. ' to slot the door,' to bolt it when shut. Slough, «6. (1) a watry
boggish place ; (2) the cast akin of a snake. ..."
5. Raiderland: All about Grey Galloway, Its Stories, Traditions, Characters by Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Joseph Pennell (1904)
"... boggish desolations of Galloway. But even as he lifted his eyes from the
lily-pools where the broad leaves were already browning and turning up at the ..."
6. The Diddler by A. E. Senter, James Kenney (1868)
"A YOUNG- fellow riding down a steep hill, and doubting the foot of it was boggish,
called out to a clown that was ditching, and asked him if it was hard at ..."
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