Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A quagmire.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A shaking, marshy soil; a quagmire.
- n. Synonyms See marsh.
Wiktionary
- n. quagmire
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare A quagmire.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
Etymologies
- Perhaps variant of Middle English quabbe, from Old English *cwabba. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Awesome and all of you nay sayers can just go and re-watch the Christmas special if you need a reminder as to how bad it could have been … R2 says: Whreooouuuv! quag”
“It's time for true Conservatives to admit that the Battle in Iraq has ground to a halt and recognize that we should support pulling back militarily from the quag in which it has become mired.”
“Its time for true Conservatives to admit that the Battle in Iraq has ground to a halt and recognize that we should support pulling back militarily from the quag in which it has become mired.”
“Whether he was choked with gases, or perished in a quag, or was removed bodily by the Evil”
“When once I had seen from the leads of our house the quag of reeking life around, the stubs and snags of chimney-pots, the gashes among them entitled streets, and the broken blains called houses, I was quite ashamed of paying any thing to become a Christian.”
“Then I flung my body suddenly backward against the squelching quag, and, grabbing wildly behind my head, laid hold of her fetlock.”
“By midnight we had crossed the Ghadaf and the quag felt too awful for further progress.”
“They belonged to what seemed a giant body, sunk up to the shoulders in a quag.”
“Rushing wind and lashing rain; pale gleams of a fitful moon to show swaying trees that tossed wild arms to heaven, and a splashing quag below, mud and wind-swept pools, all lost again in the swirling dark.”
“Even under these circumstances imagination, as though rebelling against the conditions of sunshine and summer then maintaining, leaped to picture Mên Scryfa under the black screaming of winter storm or rising darkly upon deep snows; casting a transitory shadow over a waste ghastly blue under flashes of lightning, or throbbing to its deep roots when thunder roared over the moor and the levin brand hissed unseen into quag and fen.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘quag’.
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Q words
Ever get stuck with the random bunch of letters and a q and not know any words? Well, maybe this will help.
quire, quais, quai, queer, quoit, quitrent, quipster, question, quest, questing, quests, quit and 208 more...
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Fictional music genres
fudgepunk, whangboogie, electrogush, jizzbilly, glambient, queasy listening, chip shop, baroque'n'roll, prog folk, chemo, riant grrl, blingfolk and 584 more...
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Good ol' qu-
quag, quagga, quaff, querulous, quorum, sesquipedalian, quibble, quip, aquiline, quote, quotationist, quoter and 29 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 842 more...
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Q-Tips
mmm... tasty
qat, maqui, quays, quite, qua, pique, quean, quits, aqua, qaids, queen, quods and 76 more...
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Pseudorandom words
Words found through Wordie's random word function. I didn't take phrases, foreign, misspelled, or madeupical words, so I looked at about 200 words to assemble this list.
I was surprise...ishkabibble, jericho, inopercular, oppositional, puerility, chronometer, cavern, cisternae, osteospermum, boxcar, misandry, savannah and 88 more...
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Bombardier Bilby Blows The Cellar
Words that sound much better than cellar door.
drumbledrane, foulmart, muzzle drift, slugplum, spinecabbage, chuffling tigers, bone-eating snot ..., greenchop, filth, gasometer, Piper Alpha, concussor and 49 more...
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desuffixed words
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Good words for Scrabble
Tweets
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