quaggy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
22
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈkwɒɡi/(UK)

Definition of quaggy

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. 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.”
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adj

  1. 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.”

name

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

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Etymology

From quag + -y.

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