quag

quag

Q0010700 (kwăg, kwŏg)n. A quagmire.

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[Perhaps variant of Middle English quabbe, from Old English *cwabba.]

quag

(kwæɡ; kwɒɡ) n (Physical Geography) another word for quagmire[C16: perhaps related to quake; compare Middle Low German quabbe]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

quag - a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfootmire, morass, quagmire, slackbog, peat bog - wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel

quag

nounA usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water:bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, muskeg, quagmire, slough, swamp, swampland, wetland.

Translations

maraismarécage