quag
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of quag
First recorded in 1580–90; expressive word, obscurely akin to quake
Vocabulary lists containing quag
Example Sentences
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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
An' after we'd a-had our squaïls, Poor Tom, a-jumpèn in a bag, Wer pinch'd by all the maïden's naïls, An' rolled down into hwome-groun' quag.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
Bene, satis, male,— Where was I with my trope 'bout one in a quag?
From A Nonsense Anthology by Carolyn Wells
And ever again to the Potter's Field, The Souls in torment came, But the black quag boiled and writhed and coiled, And would have none of them.
From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by John Oxenham
You must get out of this quag somehow.
From The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner
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