quaggy
IPA: kwˈægi
noun
- A short river that passes through the London boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
adjective
- Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
- Soft or flabby (of a person etc.).
Examples of "quaggy" in Sentences
- For dinner they each ate a carton of tepid rice and quaggy vegetables.
- Allfou and the rest of incurables and the last of immurables, the quaggy waag for stumbling.
- She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the quaggy ground of personal feeling.
- We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses.
- And I love finding new ones, like the one I discovered last week via Wordsmith: quaggy (KWAG-ee) adjective Marshy; flabby; spongy.
- The path itself, or rather the portion of more solid ground on which the travellers half walked, half waded, was rough, broken, and in many places quaggy and unsound.