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Definition of quaggy:

Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy.

Synonyms:

slapdash, dirty, murky, slipshod, overemotional, mushy, sloughy, dingy, resist, wet, pulpy, soft, pappy, mucky, spongy, doughy, waterlogged, pulpous, yielding, baggy, inert, squashy, sloppy, miry, boggy, sluggish, spongelike, haphazard, torpid, mirky, loose-fitting, squishy, swampy, muddy, turbid, cloudy, soggy, marshy, muddied.

Usage examples:

I cautiously approached its quaggy edges, when I was shocked by what appeared to be a sudden vision!

- "The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories", Bret Harte.
These reeds, again, grow in a peculiarly uncomfortable, quaggy bottom, which rises and falls, or rather which jumps and sinks when you step on it, like the seat of a very luxurious arm- chair.

- "Angling Sketches", Andrew Lang.
Ever from river or from lakelet the steamer glides again into canal or bayou,- from bayou or canal once more into lake or bay; and sometimes the swamp- forest visibly thins away from these shores into wastes of reedy morass where, even of breathless nights, the quaggy soil trembles to a sound like thunder of breakers on a coast: the storm- roar of billions of reptile voices chanting in cadence,- rhythmically surging in stupendous crescendo and diminuendo,- a monstrous and appalling chorus of frogs!

- "Chita: A Memory of Last Island", Lafcadio Hearn.