quaggy
Americanadjective
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of the nature of or resembling a quagmire; marshy; boggy.
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soft or flabby.
quaggy flesh.
adjective
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resembling a marsh or quagmire; boggy
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yielding, soft, or flabby
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In Scotland, they offered a way of avoiding a six-mile walk around a quaggy loch.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2016
Dane waited ten long minutes, feeling thankful, meanwhile, that the one spot where the ridge could be reached on that side through the quaggy swamp was lighted by the fire.
From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold
We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory quaggy ground intersected with watercourses.
From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry
Portions of them on the water's edge that were low and quaggy, were sowed with the redtop, which will thrive in very moist soil, and gives it firmness.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
And she gave Arion a light touch with her hunting-crop, and cantered gaily down the gently sloping track to a green lawn, which looked, to Captain Winstanley's experienced eye, very much like a quaggy bog.
From Vixen, Volume II. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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