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Quag

Quag \Quag\, n. A quagmire. [R.] ``Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells.''
--Cowper.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
quag

"marshy spot," 1580s, a variant of Middle English quabbe "a marsh, bog," from Old English *cwabba "shake, tremble" (like something soft and flabby).

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quag

n. (context obsolete English) quagmire; marsh; bog.

WordNet
quag

n. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn: mire, quagmire, morass]

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Quag

Quag is an interest-based social network created in Italy.

On Quag, the interaction between users is generated based on the concept not of “friendship”, but of “common interest” or “affinity”.

On Quag, the word “interest” covers as wide a range as possible: an interest can be a passion, a need, a problem, an area of study…on Quag we can discuss what really interests us with people who have something in common with us, who share our interests, passions, needs or problems.

Usage examples of "quag".

In the old days when places like the Metronome and Quags and the Hungaria kept going up to two in the morning the Boys had worked through, sometimes going on to parties in private houses.

Just the deep silence that comes to the marshes when a blanket of snow covers the bogs and quags, silences their gurgles and gloops and sends all the slimy crea­tures back into the stillness of the mud.

For a moment a lashing tentacle reached up from the shuddering foundations to a height of some twenty feet, then collapsed and was sucked back down into the quaking, liquefying quag of earth and fire.

Out over the marshes it traveled, covering the brackish marsh water with a thick white layer of ice, freezing the bogs and quags and sending the marsh creatures burrowing down into the depths of the mires where the frost could not reach.

One of his scaled arms moved in a loose, sweeping gesture, his snouted head turned a little, so one of the unblinking eyes might still regard the quag.