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PRONUNCIATION OF BOGGISH

boggish  [ˈbɒɡɪʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOGGISH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Boggish is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BOGGISH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of boggish in the English dictionary

The definition of boggish in the dictionary is like a bog.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BOGGISH


biggish
ˈbɪɡɪʃ
broguish
ˈbrəʊɡɪʃ
doggish
ˈdɒɡɪʃ
dreggish
ˈdreɡɪʃ
Gish
ɡɪʃ
haggish
ˈhæɡɪʃ
hoggish
ˈhɒɡɪʃ
jiggish
ˈdʒɪɡɪʃ
loggish
ˈlɒɡɪʃ
pedagoguish
ˈpɛdəˌɡɒɡɪʃ
piggish
ˈpɪɡɪʃ
priggish
ˈprɪɡɪʃ
puggish
ˈpʌɡɪʃ
roguish
ˈrəʊɡɪʃ
sluggish
ˈslʌɡɪʃ
thuggish
ˈθʌɡɪʃ
voguish
ˈvəʊɡɪʃ
waggish
ˈwæɡɪʃ
Whiggish
ˈwɪɡɪʃ
woggish
ˈwɒɡɪʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOGGISH

bogey
bogey hole
bogeyism
bogeyman
bogeymen
boggart
bogged
bogged down
bogger
bogginess
bogging
boggle
boggler
boggy
bogie
bogies
bogland
bogle
bogman
bogmen

WORDS THAT END LIKE BOGGISH

British
curate´s-eggish
Danish
English
fetish
finish
fish
Irish
largish
longish
on the parish
orangish
polish
publish
slangish
Spanish
strongish
stylish
Swedish
youngish

Synonyms and antonyms of boggish in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «boggish» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BOGGISH

Find out the translation of boggish to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of boggish from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «boggish» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

boggish
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

boggish
570 millions of speakers

English

boggish
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

boggish
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

boggish
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

boggish
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

boggish
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

boggish
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

boggish
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Boggish
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

boggish
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

boggish
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

boggish
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Boggish
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

boggish
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

boggish
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बोग्गीश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

boggish
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

boggish
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

boggish
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

boggish
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

boggish
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

boggish
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

boggish
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

boggish
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

boggish
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of boggish

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BOGGISH»

The term «boggish» is used very little and occupies the 191.068 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of boggish
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BOGGISH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «boggish» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «boggish» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about boggish

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOGGISH»

Discover the use of boggish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to boggish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Intellectual Revolution of the Seventeenth Century ...
Printers' readings apart, 'boggish' seems to me the more expressive of the two. Whether the doctrine and practice of sexual promiscuity were correctly ascribed to the Ranters is hard to know; according to N. Cohn (Purruit of tbe Millennium, ...
Charles Webster, 2012
2
Tolondron: speeches to John Bowle about his edition of Don ...
thargy with regard to learned objects, has forced us to get on tiptoe one behind the other, and gaze with astonishment on the Tolondronic edifice, certainly the most un- architectonic and antivitruvian ever hitherto erected in the boggish part of ...
Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, 1786
3
Researches in Iberia-Colchology
Coastal part of the Kolkheti Lowland is covered with grassy swamps, boggish and liana forests with evergreen forest covers. Interesting information about natural and geographic characteristics of the river of Phasis (Rioni) basin gives ...
Gela Gamqreliże, David Braund, 2012
4
The Scots Magazine
I informed myself of the nature of the ground and the depth of the rié ver; and, notwithstanding they told me the ground was somewhat boggish", I formed a design to attacque them by surprise, for they did not know of my being arrived; but my ...
5
A Discurse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica. ...
... the unction sufficiently answering the intention bfthis' y ' vThere grows almost every where in' moist-and boggish'places, a large and ref- v z markable plant called generally the dumb 34 '_' ' _ Cane, and that nbtrimproperly; , Forth: fimilate's ...
Thomas Trapham, 1679
6
The Works ... to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author. A ...
And a gentleman of quality of my' acquaintance, whose- improvements I went lately to view, shewed me a scope of ground, which at his first coming to that wild place, four or five years ago, was boggish, and which yet he had turned into a ...
Robert I Boyle, 1772
7
Butterfly Harvest
I tried to investigate the mysterious sludge, but the ground was hidden under a blanket of thick fog. My only source of light was the evening stars, and as I tilted my head to them, layers of green smoke mingled to create a boggish glow. Ripples ...
Sandra R. Campbell, 2010
8
Ulster Journal of Archaeology
... for some mountaines & boggish grounds than the long Plough, as is now begun & practized in the Barony of Clankie, in the Coimtie of Gavan, which we rather advise; because we have received credible Informaeion that the Earle of Antrim, ...
9
1601-1603
... a boggish glynn, and passable with horse only at one ford, which before he had entrenched. " The ground whereupon the enemy must have drawn in gross to force that passage was flanked from the Earl's quarter by the cannon, and that,  ...
Lambeth Palace Library, George Carew Earl of Totnes, John Sherren Brewer, 1870
10
A Last Elizabethan Journal
... so that when day broke Tyrone, who had intended to put all the Spaniards with 800 of the best Irish under Tyrrell within the town, found our army embattled upon a hill and well protected by a boggish glyn in front. Anon thinking it to be no day ...
G.B. Harrison, 2013

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOGGISH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term boggish is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Cheltenham Rugby Club given £5000 for new multi-games area
“Sometimes the rain really makes the pitch quite boggish, and we had quite a lot of rain in the last few months. “One advantage is the children ... «Gloucestershire Echo, Jan 15»
2
When it comes to nature's TP, leaves of three, let them be
It loves to grow in swampy boggish locales, i.e. everywhere in the Lowcountry. It is also common in wooded areas. Those are the bad boys of ... «Charleston City Paper, Apr 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Boggish [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/boggish>. Apr 2024 ».
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