Hypertext Webster Gateway: "quaggy"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

quaggy
adj : (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}, {sloughy}, {swampy}]


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