English

Proper noun

Quaggy

1. A short river that passes through the London boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

English

Alternative forms

• quoggy

Adjective

quaggy ‎(comparative quaggier, superlative quaggiest)

1. Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
   • 1818, Asiatick Society, Asiatick Researches

     English oxen would be much distressed and frightened in such quaggy soil.

   • 1969, Nandu Singh, S N Avdhut, Dayal Yoga

     Man has to feel his way most cautiously in the quaggy soil of ignorance, suspense, superstition and moral darkness.

2. Soft or flabby (of a person etc.).
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:

     Behold her then, spreading the whole troubled bed with her huge quaggy carcase: Her mill-post arms held up; her broad hands clenched with violence [...].

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 25

     In truth, a mature man who uses hairoil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can’t amount to much in his totality.