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English
Etymology
From bog + land.
Noun
bogland (countable and uncountable, plural boglands)
- 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:I moved west to the moody, slightly creepy bogland zone called Zangarmarsh and became my server’s first Level 62er just before noon.
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