quag

American  

[kwag, kwog] / kwæg, kwɒg /

noun

1. a quagmire.

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quag British  

/ kwɒɡ, kwæɡ /

noun

1. another word for quagmire

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Etymology

Origin of quag

First recorded in 1580–90; expressive word, obscurely akin to quake

Example Sentences

But a combination of mishaps and bungled central planning finally plunged the country into a hopeless economic quag mire that enraged the workers.

From Time Magazine Archive

So he saw more perfectly the ditch that was on the one hand, and the quag that was on the other; also how narrow the way was which led between them both.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.

Again, behold, on the left hand, there was a very dangerous quag or bog, into which if even a good, or grand, man falls, he finds no bottom for his foot to stand on.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 15, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

I tell you frankly that less than twenty thousand pounds will not extricate me from the quag of ruin in which I am entangled—lost!'

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Into that quag King David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not HE that is able plucked him out.

From The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by Bunyan, John