quaggy

comparative quaggier · superlative quaggiest · alternative quoggy

1. Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.

   English oxen would be much distressed and frightened in such quaggy soil.

   1818, Asiatick Society, Asiatick Researches

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   Man has to feel his way most cautiously in the quaggy soil of ignorance, suspense, superstition and moral darkness.

   1969, Nandu Singh, S N Avdhut, Dayal Yoga

   Synonyms: moorish

2. Soft or flabby (of a person etc.).

   In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXV, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 124

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   Behold her then, spreading the whole troubled bed with her huge quaggy carcase: Her mill-post arms held up; her broad hands clenched with violence […].

   1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa

1. A short river that passes through the London boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham.