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QUAG
Definition of QUAG
noun
Quagmire; marsh; bog.
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Other senses
QUAG carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A quagmire.
noun
A shaking, marshy soil; a quagmire.
noun
Synonyms See marsh.
noun
A quagmire.
Where it comes from
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. Compare typologically Russian тряси́на (trjasína) (see for more).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
8th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.1%
of traced words share this origin (909)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUAG · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Russian.
QUAG in a sentence
“Awesome and all of you nay sayers can just go and re-watch the Christmas special if you need a reminder as to how bad it could have been … R2 says: Whreooouuuv! quag”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Clone Wars trailer leaked, 2008
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUAG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 126 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
QUAG starts with Q and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AGQU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of QUAG. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start QUAG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found QUAG?
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