quag

[ kwag, kwog ]

noun

1. a quagmire.

quag

/ kwɒɡ; kwæɡ /

noun

1. another word for quagmire

Word History and Origins

Origin of quag¹

First recorded in 1580–90; expressive word, obscurely akin to quake

Word History and Origins

Origin of quag¹

C16: perhaps related to quake ; compare Middle Low German quabbe

Example Sentences

There is a quag between us and that light, and you will walk into it up to your neck unless I take you round.

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Once the quag was so deep, that to avoid sinking in it we had to be carried, one by one, on the back of our Malay driver.

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I suppose he must have wrung his off hind leg in fighting through the quag.

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Quaw or quagh; a quag or quagmire:—'I was unwilling to attempt the quagh.'

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"I always said old Cornelius Husk was slow," said one Quag man to another.

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