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Definition of Quaggy
1. Adjective. (of soil) soft and watery. "Swampy bayous"
Similar to: Wet
Derivative terms: Bog, Marsh, Mire, Mud, Muddiness, Quag, Slop, Sloppiness, Slough, Sogginess, Swamp
Definition of Quaggy
1. a. Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy.
Definition of Quaggy
1. Adjective. Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry. ¹
2. Adjective. Soft or flabby (of a person etc.). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quaggy
1. marshy [adj -GIER, -GIEST] - See also: marshy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quaggy
Literary usage of Quaggy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and edited by Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"In the trials of this kind that I have made, this foft quaggy ground has ...
the quaggy earth begins to ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"If you attempt to make your pit in one of these soft quaggy places where the ...
In the trials of this kind that I have made, this soft quaggy ground has ..."
3. The Hastings Road and the "happy Springs of Tunbridge," by Charles George Harper (1906)
"I should not be greatly surprised to find the quaggy the object of police ...
The "quaggy" isa later title, conferred descriptively by those who observed ..."
4. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"Eng.) quaggy or quaky, is a corruption of the old Eng. quick-mire, a bog that
seems quick or alive because it shakes or moves, just as quick-silver is ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"quaggy bog-earth.'—Modern Husbandman, IV. iv. 42. Quashing. (1) ' When the butter
is come, which you may know by its quashing.'—Modern Husbandman, III. i. ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... or quaggy with ponds ! The old 'n stands high enough, but is enlaced on
the -western southern side by a set of lakes and quagmires, some of ;h are still ..."
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