quaggy
See also: Quaggy
English
Alternative forms
- quoggy
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒɡi/
Adjective
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.
- 1818, Asiatick Society, Asiatick Researches
- 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, Moby Dick, chapter 25
- 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.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:
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