quaggy \KWAG-ee\, adjective:
1. Marshy; boggy.
2. Soft or flabby.
沼地的
The pool, thank Heaven! was not deep enough to have drowned any one; there were no signs of a struggle on its quaggy edges.
-- In a hollow of the hills: and other tales
I am listening to the classical station and becoming slightly delusional and eating some quaggy carroty mushy soup.
-- "You Know You Love Me," Sonatina Blog, http://littlesonata.blogspot.com, May, 2008
Quaggy ultimately derives from the Old English cwabba, "shake or tremble," in the sense of viscous fluid.
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