Quaggy vs Quagga - What's the difference?
quaggy | quagga |
Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
* 1818 , Asiatick Society, Asiatick Researches
* 1969 , Nandu Singh, S N Avdhut, Dayal Yoga
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 ,
A southern African subspecies of zebra, , which went extinct in 1883, and the upper parts of which were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes.
As a proper noun quaggy
is a short river that passes through the.As a noun quagga is
a southern african subspecies of zebra, , which went extinct in 1883, and the upper parts of which were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes.quaggy
English
Alternative forms
*quoggyAdjective
(er)- 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.
- 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.