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quag
(kwăg, kwŏg)n.
A quagmire.
[Perhaps variant of Middle English quabbe, from Old English *cwabba.]
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quag
(kwæɡ; kwɒɡ)n
(Physical Geography) another word for quagmire
[C16: perhaps related to quake; compare Middle Low German quabbe]
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