Rick Mcgimpsey

In my reading of chapter XXV, Postscript I came across a peculiar word which no online or offline dictionary has offered any definition. The word is 'quoggy'. The word in context is used in this sentence: "In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere." Does anyone know what the word means and if, perhaps, Melville coined the word himself?

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Maggie It seems to be another spelling of quaggy which in reference to a person means soft or flabby.
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