quag
a quagmire.
Origin of quag
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How to use quag in a sentence
There is a quag between us and that light, and you will walk into it up to your neck unless I take you round.
Return of the Native | Thomas HardyOnce 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.
Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I | Karl Ritter von ScherzerI suppose he must have wrung his off hind leg in fighting through the quag.
The Splendid Spur | Arthur T. Quiller CouchQuaw or quagh; a quag or quagmire:—'I was unwilling to attempt the quagh.'
English As We Speak It in Ireland | P. W. Joyce"I always said old Cornelius Husk was slow," said one quag man to another.
Toaster's Handbook | Peggy Edmund and Harold W. Williams, compilers
British Dictionary definitions for quag
/ (kwæɡ, kwɒɡ) /
another word for quagmire
Origin of quag
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