quaggy en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈkwɒɡi/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From quag + -y.
Meanings
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Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
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:English oxen would be much distressed and frightened in such quaggy soil.
1818, Asiatick Society, Asiatick Researches:
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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 […].
1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| quoggy | alternative | lexicographic | |
| quaggiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| quaggier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |