squoggy

English

Adjective

squoggy (comparative more squoggy, superlative most squoggy)

1. (informal) swampy; marshy; muddy
   • 1897, The United Service Magazine, volume 15, page 392:

     All was gas and gaiters, in spite of rain-soaked garments, slackened belts, and squoggy pulpy boots on the hard iron stones.

   • 1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child:

     The streaky things behind the Elephant's Child mean squoggy marshy country somewhere in Africa. The Elephant's Child made most of his mud-cakes out of the mud that he found there.

   • 1987, John D. Seelye, The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, page 292:

     Well, I felt squoggy as a sponge when I left her, and I crept down the back stairs and out into the yard.