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quaggy

adj
/ˈkwɒɡi/UK

Etymology

From quag + -y.

  1. inherited from *kwabbā✻
  2. inherited from *cwabbe✻ — “that which shakes or trembles, something soft and flabby”
  3. inherited from quabbe — “a marsh, bog”
  4. suffixed as quaggy — “quag + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling a quagmire

    Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.

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

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

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

The neighborhood

Derived

quagginess

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quaggy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA