quaggy
Collocations
5ADJ.
huge
VERB + QUAGGY
frightened
QUAGGY + NOUN
carcase, ignorance, mill-post, soil
PREP.
in, with
ADV.
cautiously, such
Definitions
adj
Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
English oxen would be much distressed and frightened in such quaggy soil.
Man has to feel his way most cautiously in the quaggy soil of ignorance, suspense, superstition and moral darkness.
Soft or flabby (of a person etc.).
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 […].
In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.
name
A short river that passes through the London boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3English oxen would be much distressed and frightened in such quaggy soil.
WiktionaryMan has to feel his way most cautiously in the quaggy soil of ignorance, suspense, superstition and moral darkness.
WiktionaryBehold her then, spreading the whole troubled bed with her huge quaggy carcase: Her mill-post arms held up; her broad hands clenched with violence […].
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