quaggy

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. (of soil) soft and watery“the ground was boggy under foot”“a marshy coastline”“miry roads”“wet mucky lowland”“muddy barnyard”“quaggy terrain”“the sloughy edge of the pond”“swampy bayous”Synonyms: boggymarshymirymuckymuddysloppysloughysoggysquashyswampywaterlogged
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Quaggy \Quag"gy\, a. [See Quag, Quagmire.] Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy. "O'er the watery strath, or quaggy moss." --Collins. [1913 Webster]
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