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
There were stony tracts across which they painfully picked their way, steep ridges to be clambered over, and belts of quaggy muskeg they must skirt.
From The Intriguers by Bindloss, Harold
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
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 Rideout, Henry Milner
She pointed toward a spot where the ravine widened into a level strip of quaggy grass and moss which glowed a brilliant emerald.
From The Long Portage by Bindloss, Harold
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