quaggy

2 definitions found

quaggy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

quaggy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  quaggy
      adj 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" [syn: boggy,
             marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy,
             sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged]