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Marshy vs Quaggy - What's the difference?

marshy | quaggy |

As an adjective marshy

is of, or resembling a marsh; boggy.

As a proper noun quaggy is

a short river that passes through the.

marshy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy.
  • Growing in marshy ground.

    • Derived terms

    * marshiness

    quaggy

    English

    Alternative forms

    *quoggy

    Adjective

    (er)
  • 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.
  • 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 ,
    • 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.