(Of soil) soft and watery.
1 Weston, blinking about him, discovered in the quaggy mould two foot-prints half filled with water.
2 The quaggy ground between the camp and the stream would be an excellent defence against sudden attack.
3 I cautiously approached its quaggy edges, when I was shocked by what appeared to be a sudden vision!
4 She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the quaggy ground of personal feeling.
5 The trail was narrow just there, and wound through a quaggy belt where tall wild cabbage grew out of black depths of mire.
6 There were stony tracts across which they painfully picked their way, steep ridges to be clambered over, and belts of quaggy muskeg they must skirt.
7 "This is a hospitable house," said Jack; "but the ground must be quaggy underneath, for at every step the building quakes."
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