Rick Mcgimpsey asked this question about Moby-Dick or, The Whale:
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?
Maggie It seems to be another spelling of quaggy which in reference to a person means soft or flabby.
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