bogland

English

Etymology

From bog +‎ land.

Noun

bogland (countable and uncountable, plural boglands)

1. Land that is predominantly boggy; marshland.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27:

     I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road.

   • 1953 May, P. W. B. Semmens, “Impressions of the Irish Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 296:

     Even when it has been drained, the bogland does not make a very stable roadbed.

   • 2007 January 19, Seth Schiesel, “O Brave New World That Has Such Gamers in It”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     I moved west to the moody, slightly creepy bogland zone called Zangarmarsh and became my server’s first Level 62er just before noon.

Derived terms

• boglander

 

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: suomaa, suo (fi)
• German: Regenmoor n
• Irish: móin (ga) f, riasc m
• Polish: torfowisko (pl) n
• Swedish: myrmark (sv) c

Anagrams

• Blagdon