quaggy
Americanadjective
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of the nature of or resembling a quagmire; marshy; boggy.
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soft or flabby.
quaggy flesh.
adjective
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resembling a marsh or quagmire; boggy
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yielding, soft, or flabby
Other Word Forms
- quagginess noun
Etymology
Origin of quaggy
Example Sentences
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In Scotland, they offered a way of avoiding a six-mile walk around a quaggy loch.
From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2016
Weston, blinking about him, discovered in the quaggy mould two foot-prints half filled with water.
From The Gold Trail by Bindloss, Harold
There were stony tracts they painfully picked their way across, steep ridges to be clambered over, and belts of quaggy muskeg they must skirt, and the day's march grew rapidly shorter.
From Blake's Burden by Bindloss, Harold
There were stony tracts across which they painfully picked their way, steep ridges to be clambered over, and belts of quaggy muskeg they must skirt.
From The Intriguers by Bindloss, Harold
We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses.
From Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by Borrow, George Henry
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