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

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 Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

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.

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 Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

The mud floor became a quag: I seized a spade and shovelled it clean, mud and slime and worse filth together.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir