Synonyms

quaggy

American

[kwag-ee, kwog-ee] / ˈkwæg i, ˈkwɒg i /

adjective

quaggier, quaggiest

of the nature of or resembling a quagmire; marshy; boggy.
soft or flabby.

quaggy flesh.

quaggy British

/ ˈkwɒɡɪ, ˈkwæɡɪ /

adjective

resembling a marsh or quagmire; boggy
yielding, soft, or flabby

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Other Word Forms

quagginess

noun

Etymology

Origin of quaggy

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

Vocabulary lists containing quaggy

Scrabble: Words that Begin with Q

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Quaggy banks lay bare, Muddy and miry, glittering in the sun, And myriad insects hovered o'er the reeds, Whose lithe, moist tips by listless airs were stirred.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma

Quaggy Zaberngrund,—do readers remember it; one of those "Three continuous Leakages," very important, to Fermor and us at present?

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Carlyle, Thomas

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