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quoggy

quoggy is the alternative spelling of quaggy.

Meaning of quaggy

Adjective

quaggy (comparative quaggier, superlative quaggiest)

  1. Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
    • English oxen would be much distressed and frightened in such quaggy soil.1818, Asiatick Society, Asiatick Researches
    Synonyms:
    moorish
  2. Soft or flabby (of a person etc.).
    • Behold her then, spreading the whole troubled bed with her huge quaggy carcase: Her mill-post arms held up; her broad hands clenched with violence […].1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa

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Forms of quoggy

comparativequoggier
superlativequoggiest

Questions about quoggy

What is quoggy the alternative spelling of?
Quoggy is the alternative spelling of quaggy.

Words near quoggy in the dictionary

  1. quodlin
  2. quodlins
  3. quodque
  4. quods
  5. quog
  6. quoggy
  7. quogs
  8. Quogue
  9. quohog
  10. quohogs
  11. Quoiba

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