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

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quag

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

Mere captivating phrases are a will-of-the-wisp leading us to that "dangerous quag" of revolutionary change into which "even if a good man fall he will find no bottom for his feet to stand on."

From Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War by Sir Alfred Hopkinson

This I did, and the deer ran for the shore, Burr pushed his boat to the quag, took the jack, and followed the track.

From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by George S. Boutwell

I suppose he must have wrung his off hind leg in fighting through the quag.

From The Splendid Spur by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Once the quag was so deep, that to avoid sinking in it we had to be carried, one by one, on the back of our Malay driver.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer