quaggy

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English

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Etymology

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From quag +‎ -y.

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Adjective

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quaggy (comparative quaggier, superlative quaggiest)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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