quaggy

American  

[kwag-ee, kwog-ee] / ˈkwæg i, ˈkwɒg i /

adjective

quaggier, quaggiest

1. of the nature of or resembling a quagmire; marshy; boggy.

2. soft or flabby.

   quaggy flesh.

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quaggy British  

/ ˈkwɒɡɪ, ˈkwæɡɪ /

adjective

1. resembling a marsh or quagmire; boggy

2. yielding, soft, or flabby

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Other Word Forms

• quagginess noun

Etymology

Origin of quaggy

First recorded in 1600–10; quag + -y ¹

Example Sentences

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 Lang, Andrew

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 then, farther inwards, as shelter of the Russians, there is another quaggy Brook, branch of the above, which is without bridge altogether.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas

Among other things, he noticed that a little trickle of water flowed across it, and that the soil was quaggy in the neighborhood.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold