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
These reeds, again, grow in a peculiarly uncomfortable, quaggy bottom, which rises and falls, or rather which jumps and sinks when you step on it, like the seat of a very luxurious arm-chair.
From Angling Sketches by Andrew Lang
We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses.
From Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Henry Borrow
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 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
The quaggy banks, now darkening, slid more rapidly astern; while the steersman and his mates in the high bow invoked the wind with alternate chant, plaintive, mysterious, and half musical:-- "Ay-ly-chy-ly Ah-ha-aah!"
From Dragon's blood by Henry Milner Rideout
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