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

The trail was narrow just there, and wound through a quaggy belt where tall wild cabbage grew out of black depths of mire.

From Alton of Somasco by Bindloss, Harold

We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory quaggy ground intersected with watercourses. 

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry

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

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