quag
Plural: quags
Noun
- A soft, boggy area of land; a quagmire.
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- Quagmire; marsh; bog.
Examples
- His rack felt like a quag, full of difficult, low-scoring letters.
Origin / Etymology
Uncertain. Most often suggested to be an alteration of Middle English quabbe (“a marsh, bog”), from Old English *cwabbe (“that which shakes or trembles, something soft and flabby”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwabbā (“soggy ground”); this is supported by 1590s attestations of quabmire for quagmire (other earlier variants are quamire, from the 1550s, and quavemire from the 1520s). It has alternatively been suggested to be related to quake, as quaggy ground quakes when trod.
Scrabble Score: 14
quag: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordquag: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
quag: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
quag: valid Words With Friends Word