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

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Etymology

Origin of quaggy

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

quaggy

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 Harold Bindloss

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

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 Harold Bindloss

Next day, Saturday, 26th, Fermor, again brought into some kind of rank, and safe beyond the quaggy Zabern ground, sent out a proposal, "That there be Truce of Three Days for burying the dead!"

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle

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