quaggy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite (of soil) soft and watery
    mucky; swampy; soggy; boggy; muddy; marshy; sloughy; sloppy; miry; waterlogged; squashy.
    • 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

WordNet

Quag"gy adjective
Etymology
See Quag, Quagmire.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913