ADJECTIVE
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(of soil) soft and watery
swampy bayous
a marshy coastline
quaggy terrain
muddy barnyard
the ground was boggy under foot
miry roads
the sloughy edge of the pond
wet mucky lowland
How To Use quaggy In A Sentence
- The path itself, or rather the portion of more solid ground on which the travellers half walked, half waded, was rough, broken, and in many places quaggy and unsound.
- The little River Quaggy has been liberated from decades of confinement in a concrete culvert and given a new naturalistic course; a home for wildlife and a delight for people.
- We came at last to a bit of quaggy road, which one man, by making a dash as over thin ice, might possibly have got through; for six men and a stretcher this was impossible.
- quaggy terrain
- Allfou and the rest of incurables and the last of immurables, the quaggy waag for stumbling. Finnegans Wake
- We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
- She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the quaggy ground of personal feeling. Red Pottage
- For dinner they each ate a carton of tepid rice and quaggy vegetables. Heaven Lake
- However, there is one interesting thing about wild, remote, quaggy old Isle of Lewis.
- We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery