quaggy
See also: Quaggy
English
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[edit]quaggy (comparative quaggier, superlative quaggiest)
- Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
- 1818, Asiatick Society, Asiatick Researches:
- English oxen would be much distressed and frightened in such quaggy soil.
- 1969, Nandu Singh, S N Avdhut, Dayal Yoga:
- Man has to feel his way most cautiously in the quaggy soil of ignorance, suspense, superstition and moral darkness.
- 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 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:
- In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.
Synonyms
[edit]- (resembling a quagmire): moorish, paludal, syrtic; see also Thesaurus:marshy