quashy
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]quashy (comparative more quashy, superlative most quashy)
- slushy; mushy
- 1852, Journal of Agriculture, volume 2, page 29:
- The flagon of wine and the Wardon pie, what have they come to? Vin ordinaire in a wooden mug, and a quashy mess of baking pears under a pie-crust of the middle ages?
- 1905, Perceval Landon, The Opening of Tibet:
- The rock on which the jong stands must at one time have been lapped by the waters of the lake, but at the present time the Yam-dok tso has retreated so far, that a quashy stretch of vivid green quagmire spreads between the road and the shore.