queachy

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Even rent the hollow woods and shook the queachy ground;

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  1. Shaking; moving, yielding, or trembling under the feet, as wet or swampy ground. 'Twixt Penwith's furthest point and Goodwin's queachy sand. Drayton, Polyolbion, ii. 396. I'n got no daughter o' my own—ne'er had one—an' I warna sorry, for they're poor queechy things, gells is. George Eliot, Adam Bede, x. (Davies.)
  2. Bushy; thick. The owle, that hates the day and loues to flee by night, Hath queachie bushes to defende him from Apollo's sight. Turberville, That All Things Have Release. Our bloud is changed to Inke, our haires to Quils, Our eyes halfe buried in our quechy plots. Heywood, Golden Age, v. 1.

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  1. Also queechy; from queach + -y.
  2. Early modern English also quechy; from queach + -y.
 

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