quag
/kwaɡ
/ /kwɒɡ /noun archaic
A marshy or boggy place.The entire region plunged into deep chaos and a nation was caught up in a deep quag, that it is still finding itself difficult to extricate from....
- Both tires have deep, conical lugs that grip like a colony of leeches but are spaced well-enough apart to shed even the most adhesive quag with ease.
- The only good thing about your garden becoming a quag is that the weeds pull up really easily.
Derivatives
quaggy
- However, there is one interesting thing about wild, remote, quaggy old Isle of Lewis.
- The path itself, or rather the portion of more solid ground on which the travellers half walked, half waded, was rough, broken, and in many places quaggy and unsound.
- We came at last to a bit of quaggy road, which one man, by making a dash as over thin ice, might possibly have got through; for six men and a stretcher this was impossible.
Origin
Late 16th century: related to dialect quag 'shake, quiver'; probably symbolic, the qu- suggesting movement (as in quake and quick).
Rhymes
- minerally
- mineral map
- mineralness
- mineralocorticoid
- mineralogic
- mineralogical
- mineralogically
- mineralogist
- mineralographic
- mineralography
- mineralogy
- mineraloid
- mineral oil
- mineral pitch
- mineral purple
- mineral right
- mineral rights
- mineral salt
- mineral soil
- mineral solution
- mineral spirits
- mineral spring
- mineral teeth
- mineral violet
- mineral water