Quaggy

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]
       [also: {quaggiest}, {quaggier}]