squoggy

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English

Adjective

squoggy (comparative more squoggy, superlative most squoggy)

  1. (informal) swampy; marshy; muddy
    • 1897, The United Service Magazine, volume 15, page 392:
      All was gas and gaiters, in spite of rain-soaked garments, slackened belts, and squoggy pulpy boots on the hard iron stones.
    • 1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child:
      The streaky things behind the Elephant's Child mean squoggy marshy country somewhere in Africa. The Elephant's Child made most of his mud-cakes out of the mud that he found there.
    • 1987, John D. Seelye, The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, page 292:
      Well, I felt squoggy as a sponge when I left her, and I crept down the back stairs and out into the yard.