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
The long train had run out of the forest in the night, and was now speeding over a vast white level which lay soft and quaggy in the sunshine, for the snow had lately gone.
From A Prairie Courtship by Bindloss, Harold
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
PROEM:—Apologia pro Auctore It occurs to me that we here assume intimacy with a man of unusual achievement, and therefore tread upon quaggy premises.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by Cabell, James Branch
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 Borrow, George Henry
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