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quaggy

English

Alternative forms

  • quoggy

Etymology

From quag +? -y.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?kw??i/

Adjective

quaggy (comparative quaggier, superlative quaggiest)

  1. Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
  2. Soft or flabby (of a person etc.).

Synonyms

  • (resembling a quagmire): moorish, paludal, syrtic; see also Thesaurus:marshy

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miry

English

Etymology

From Middle English myry, equivalent to mire +? -y.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?ma?(?)?i/
  • Rhymes: -a??ri

Adjective

miry (comparative mirier, superlative miriest)

  1. Relating to a mire; swampy, boggy. [from 14th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:
      Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
    • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
      summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […].
    • 1934 George Orwell, Burmese Days:
      Beyond the bazaar one could see the huge, miry river."

Synonyms

  • (like a mire): boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy

Derived terms

  • miriness

Translations

Anagrams

  • Ymir, rimy

Middle English

Adjective

miry

  1. Alternative form of mery

Adverb

miry

  1. Alternative form of mery

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