Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
QUAGGY
boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
(adjective) (of soil) soft and watery; “the ground was boggy under foot”; “a marshy coastline”; “miry roads”; “wet mucky lowland”; “muddy barnyard”; “quaggy terrain”; “the sloughy edge of the pond”; “swampy bayous”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
quaggy (comparative quaggier, superlative quaggiest)
Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
Soft or flabby (of a person etc.).
Synonyms
• (resembling a quagmire): moorish, paludal, syrtic; see also marshy
Proper noun
Quaggy
A short river that passes through the London boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Source: Wiktionary
Quag"gy, a.Etym: [See Quag, Quagmire.]
Definition: Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy. "O'er the watery strath, or quaggy moss." Collins.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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