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quag

[kwag, kwog]
–noun
a quagmire.

Origin:
1580–90; expressive word, obscurely akin to quake
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quag   (kwāg, kwŏg)   
n.  A quagmire.

[Perhaps variant of Middle English quabbe, from Old English *cwabba.]
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