• Quaggy

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈkwÉ’É¡i/

    Origin

    From quag + -y.

    Alternative forms

    • quoggy

    Full definition of quaggy

    Adjective

    quaggy

    1. Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
      • 1818, Asiatick Society, Asiatick ResearchesEnglish oxen would be much distressed and frightened in such quaggy soil.
      • 1969, Nandu Singh, S N Avdhut, Dayal YogaMan has to feel his way most cautiously in the quaggy soil of ignorance, suspense, superstition and moral darkness.
    2. Soft or flabby (of a person etc.).
      • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa: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 ....
      • 1851, Herman Melville, ,In truth, a mature man who uses hairoil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can’t amount to much in his totality.
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