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quaggy

[ kwag-ee, kwog-ee ]

adjective

quaggier, quaggiest.
  1. of the nature of or resembling a quagmire; marshy; boggy.
  2. soft or flabby:

    quaggy flesh.



quaggy

/ ˈkwɒɡɪ; ˈkwæɡɪ /

adjective

  1. resembling a marsh or quagmire; boggy
  2. yielding, soft, or flabby
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of quaggy1

First recorded in 1600–10; quag + -y 1
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Example Sentences

In Scotland, they offered a way of avoiding a six-mile walk around a quaggy loch.

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They went by without a sound but the confused patter of weary feet upon the quaggy trail, and left an impressive silence behind them when they plunged into the gloom again.

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The long train had run out of the forest in the night, and was now speeding over a vast white level which lay soft and quaggy in the sunshine, for the snow had lately gone.

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Among other things, he noticed that a little trickle of water flowed across it, and that the soil was quaggy in the neighborhood.

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He knew well the evil record of that quaggy ground, and of the gleaming, sheening flats—the ruthless oozy flats which tell no tales.

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