Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling a marsh; soggy.
- adjective Soft and flabby.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yielding to the feet or trembling under the foot, as soft wet earth; boggy; spongy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling a
quagmire ;marshy ,miry . - adjective
Soft orflabby (of a person etc.).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of soil) soft and watery
Etymologies
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Examples
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And I love finding new ones, like the one I discovered last week via Wordsmith: quaggy (KWAG-ee) adjective Marshy; flabby; spongy.
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Allfou and the rest of incurables and the last of immurables, the quaggy waag for stumbling.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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For dinner they each ate a carton of tepid rice and quaggy vegetables.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses.
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For dinner they each ate a carton of tepid rice and quaggy vegetables.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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For dinner they each ate a carton of tepid rice and quaggy vegetables.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the quaggy ground of personal feeling.
Red Pottage 2004
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For dinner they each ate a carton of tepid rice and quaggy vegetables.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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The path itself, or rather the portion of more solid ground on which the travellers half walked, half waded, was rough, broken, and in many places quaggy and unsound.
Waverley 2004
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For dinner they each ate a carton of tepid rice and quaggy vegetables.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
minerva commented on the word quaggy
Behold her then, spreading the whole troubled bed with her huge quaggy carcase...
Belford to Lovelace, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
January 1, 2008
sonofgroucho commented on the word quaggy
Presumably related to quagmire?
June 3, 2009
madmouth commented on the word quaggy
yes. OE says 1579, from obsolete quag "bog, marsh" + mire
June 3, 2009