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

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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A precarious thousand a-year—dependent on the caprice of a narrow, tyrannical old man, with a young wife at his ear, and a load of debts upon Cleve's shoulders, as he walked over the quag!

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And what with the sloughs and quags, the peat-faces and green, shaking bogs, it was not at all a canny country after dark.

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At the Mermaid Inn Men disagreed in friendship and in truth; But he agreed with all men, and his life Was one soft quag of falsehood.

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"God save the king!" and immediately their horse moved against the pirates: but the fields being full of quags, and soft under-foot, they could not wheel about as they desired.

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