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Quag sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1910, rev. 2025. Quag sb. Also 6, 8 quage, 7 quagg(e. [Related to QUAG v.; cf. QUAB, QUAW, and see QUAGMIRE.] A marshy or boggy spot, esp. one covered with a layer of turf that shakes or yields when walked on.

1 1589.  Ive, Fortif., 16. Where you finde quicke sands, quages, and such like.

2 1657.  Howell, Londinop., 342. Moorfields, which in former times, was but a fenny quagge, or moore.

3 a. 1677.  Barrow, Serm., Wks. 1716, III. 143. The latter walk upon a bottomless Quag into which unawares they may slump.

4 1784.  Cowper, Tiroc., 253. We keep the road, Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells.

5 1883.  Besant, All in a Garden fair, I. ii. (1885), 19. There are pools in the forest … there are marshy places and quags.

6   fig.  1888.  Ch. Times, 27 Jan., 68/3. All who are trying to find a way out of the Vatican quag, without turning Protestants.

7   b.  attrib. and Comb., as quag-brain, -kind, -water.

8 1719.  D’Urfey, Pills (1872), II. 244. Tho’ Law and Justice were of slender growth Within his quag Brain.

9 1772.  Walker, in Phil. Trans., LXII. 124. It was mostly of the quag kind, which is a sort of moss covered at top with a turf of heath and coarse aquatic grasses.

10 a. 1870.  D. G. Rossetti, Poems (1870), 252. I … fouled my feet in quag-water.

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