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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