quag
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of quag
First recorded in 1580–90; expressive word, obscurely akin to quake
Vocabulary lists containing quag
Example Sentences
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But a combination of mishaps and bungled central planning finally plunged the country into a hopeless economic quag mire that enraged the workers.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the Mermaid Inn Men disagreed in friendship and in truth; But he agreed with all men, and his life Was one soft quag of falsehood.
From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes
I've some hundreds of quarters of it on hand; and if your renovating process will make it wholesome, why, you can see what a quag 'twould get me out of.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Bene, satis, male,— Where was I with my trope 'bout one in a quag?
From A Nonsense Anthology by Carolyn Wells
And oh, it was a fell, fell place, With dead black trees all round, And a quag that boiled and writhed and coiled Where had been solid ground.
From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by John Oxenham
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