morassn.

Brit.

/məˈras/, U.S.

/məˈræs/,

/mɔˈræs/

Forms: 1600s moras, 1600s morase, 1600s morasse, 1600s moross, 1600s morost, 1600s– morass, 1700s morrass; Scottish pre-1700 morras, 1700s– morass.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Middle Low German. Or (ii) a borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: Middle Low German mōras; Dutch morasch.

Etymology: Either < Middle Low German mōras or < Middle Dutch morasch (also in forms maras, marasch; Dutch moeras (1599 in Kiliaan)), both ultimately < Old French marais , mares , maresc , etc. (see marish n.), with alteration of vowel of first syllable after Middle Low German mōr and Middle Dutch moor , moer moor n.¹ Compare early modern German morasz (16th cent.; 17th cent. in form Morast); also ( < Low German) Swedish moras (1556), Danish morads.In form morost after early modern German Morast . The plural form Morossos in quot. 1683 at sense 1a is perhaps influenced by Spanish, although the word does not appear to be recorded in Spanish.

a. A wet swampy tract, a bog, a marsh; an area of very wet or muddy ground; (as a mass noun) boggy land.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]

marsheOE

fenc888

sladec893

moorOE

mossOE

marshlandlOE

lay-fena1225

lay-mirea1225

moor-fenc1275

flosha1300

strother?a1300

marish1327

carrc1330

waterlanda1382

gaseync1400

quaba1425

paludec1425

mersec1440

sumpa1450

palus?1473

wash1483

morass1489

oozea1500

bog?a1513

danka1522

fell1538

soga1552

Camarine1576

gog1583

swale1584

sink1594

haga1600

mere1609

flata1616

swamp1624

pocosin1634

frogland1651

slash1652

poldera1669

savannah1671

pond-land1686

red bog1686

swang1691

slack1719

flowa1740

wetland1743

purgatory1760

curragh1780

squall1784

marais1793

vlei1793

muskeg1806

bog-pit1820

prairie1820

fenhood1834

pakihi1851

terai1852

sponge1856

takyr1864

boglet1869

sinkhole1885

grimpen1902

sphagnum bog1911

blanket bog1939

string bog1959

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) vi. 55 [He] went him doun till a morras Our a wattyr that rynnand was And in the bog [etc.].

1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. v. 72 in Church-hist. Brit. Athens..was seated in a Morase or Fenny place.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 25 There remains, making a great part of that flat, a kinde of Bog or Morost.

1683 Present State Jamaica 7 Belly-aches, caused..sometimes by ill chosen Seats when they Plant in low Valleys..or by Mountains or Morossos, and have too much rain.

1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 199 They..are making canalls to drain the moras.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 149 Nor the deep morass Refuse, but thro' the shaking wilderness Pick your nice way.

1799 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 440 The Dismal swamp, much of which is a bog or morass.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. i. 8 The sighs of the wind as it passed along the dreary morass.

1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury (1869) I. 355 Only a small portion of the country was under cultivation, the rest was morass or impenetrable forest.

1884 Christian World 11 Sept. 678/4 A train ran off the line, and went headlong into a morass.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 693/1 Allen, Bog of, the name given to a congeries of morasses in Kildare, King's County, Queen's County and Westmeath, Ireland.

1970 C. D. Adams Blue Mahoe ix. 54 Open areas of morass with herbaceous vegetation are dominated by large stands of Saw Grass.

1991 A. Wainwright Wainwright in Limestone Dales 100 Water bubbles from the peat and takes shape as a stream known as Long Churn Spring, coursing down the hillside through a morass to reach a limestone scar.

b. figurative. A complicated or confused situation which it is difficult to escape from or make progress through. Usually with of.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a scene or place of confusion

Troy-banea1520

Troy-towna1520

whirlpool?1529

Babel1537

whirlwind1714

jungle1850

morass1867

Troy-fair1870

three-ring circus1898

monkey house1910

madhouse1917

amateur night1937

1867 J. MacGregor Voy. Alone in Rob Roy iv. 64 The east end of London—that morass of vice, and sighs, and savagery.

1884 W. E. Gladstone Speech 28 Feb. (1885) 136 Let us not wander into the morasses and fogs of doubt.

1930 Amer. Econ. Rev. 20 3 Once this relatively dependable causeway has been thrown over the morass of earlier economic history [etc.].

1967 C. Jackson Second-hand Life (1968) ii. 148 She had missed the one opportunity..to pull herself up out of the morass of compulsive meaningless sexuality in which she had been sinking so long.

1994 New Yorker 19 Sept. 49/2 The Christopher mission, the Administration's most high-profile effort to find a solution to the Balkan morass.

2. Caribbean. = morass weed n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > morass-weed

morass1756

morass weed1756

hornwort1805

horn-weed1884

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 345 The Morass, or Morass-weed..is very common in all the brackish waters in Jamaica.

1980 F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. (ed. 2) 305/1 Morass, as an abbr of morass-weed. BL [sc. Belize].

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

† morass ground n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1666 J. Yonge Jrnl. (1963) (modernized text) 106 It's also very aguish and unhealthy, lying in a crude, moras ground.

1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 149 This Morass Ground was full of the largest Toads I ever saw.

† morass-way n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1675 J. Ogilby Britannia (1698) 2 Here bear to the Left, thro' a morass-way..to Morton in the Marsh.

C2.

morass weed n. chiefly Caribbean the aquatic plant hornwort, Ceratophyllum demersum.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > morass-weed

morass1756

morass weed1756

hornwort1805

horn-weed1884

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 345 The Morass, or Morass-weed..is very common in all the brackish waters in Jamaica.

1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 785 Morass-weed.

1914 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica III. 187 C[eratophyllum] demersum..Morass Weed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	morass
释义	morassn. Brit. /məˈras/, U.S. /məˈræs/, /mɔˈræs/ Forms: 1600s moras, 1600s morase, 1600s morasse, 1600s moross, 1600s morost, 1600s– morass, 1700s morrass; Scottish pre-1700 morras, 1700s– morass. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Middle Low German. Or (ii) a borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: Middle Low German mōras; Dutch morasch. Etymology: Either < Middle Low German mōras or < Middle Dutch morasch (also in forms maras, marasch; Dutch moeras (1599 in Kiliaan)), both ultimately < Old French marais , mares , maresc , etc. (see marish n.), with alteration of vowel of first syllable after Middle Low German mōr and Middle Dutch moor , moer moor n.¹ Compare early modern German morasz (16th cent.; 17th cent. in form Morast); also ( < Low German) Swedish moras (1556), Danish morads.In form morost after early modern German Morast . The plural form Morossos in quot. 1683 at sense 1a is perhaps influenced by Spanish, although the word does not appear to be recorded in Spanish. 1. a. A wet swampy tract, a bog, a marsh; an area of very wet or muddy ground; (as a mass noun) boggy land. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] marsheOE fenc888 sladec893 moorOE mossOE marshlandlOE lay-fena1225 lay-mirea1225 moor-fenc1275 flosha1300 strother?a1300 marish1327 carrc1330 waterlanda1382 gaseync1400 quaba1425 paludec1425 mersec1440 sumpa1450 palus?1473 wash1483 morass1489 oozea1500 bog?a1513 danka1522 fell1538 soga1552 Camarine1576 gog1583 swale1584 sink1594 haga1600 mere1609 flata1616 swamp1624 pocosin1634 frogland1651 slash1652 poldera1669 savannah1671 pond-land1686 red bog1686 swang1691 slack1719 flowa1740 wetland1743 purgatory1760 curragh1780 squall1784 marais1793 vlei1793 muskeg1806 bog-pit1820 prairie1820 fenhood1834 pakihi1851 terai1852 sponge1856 takyr1864 boglet1869 sinkhole1885 grimpen1902 sphagnum bog1911 blanket bog1939 string bog1959 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) vi. 55 [He] went him doun till a morras Our a wattyr that rynnand was And in the bog [etc.]. 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. v. 72 in Church-hist. Brit. Athens..was seated in a Morase or Fenny place. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 25 There remains, making a great part of that flat, a kinde of Bog or Morost. 1683 Present State Jamaica 7 Belly-aches, caused..sometimes by ill chosen Seats when they Plant in low Valleys..or by Mountains or Morossos, and have too much rain. 1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 199 They..are making canalls to drain the moras. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 149 Nor the deep morass Refuse, but thro' the shaking wilderness Pick your nice way. 1799 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 440 The Dismal swamp, much of which is a bog or morass. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. i. 8 The sighs of the wind as it passed along the dreary morass. 1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury (1869) I. 355 Only a small portion of the country was under cultivation, the rest was morass or impenetrable forest. 1884 Christian World 11 Sept. 678/4 A train ran off the line, and went headlong into a morass. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 693/1 Allen, Bog of, the name given to a congeries of morasses in Kildare, King's County, Queen's County and Westmeath, Ireland. 1970 C. D. Adams Blue Mahoe ix. 54 Open areas of morass with herbaceous vegetation are dominated by large stands of Saw Grass. 1991 A. Wainwright Wainwright in Limestone Dales 100 Water bubbles from the peat and takes shape as a stream known as Long Churn Spring, coursing down the hillside through a morass to reach a limestone scar. b. figurative. A complicated or confused situation which it is difficult to escape from or make progress through. Usually with of. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a scene or place of confusion Troy-banea1520 Troy-towna1520 whirlpool?1529 Babel1537 whirlwind1714 jungle1850 morass1867 Troy-fair1870 three-ring circus1898 monkey house1910 madhouse1917 amateur night1937 1867 J. MacGregor Voy. Alone in Rob Roy iv. 64 The east end of London—that morass of vice, and sighs, and savagery. 1884 W. E. Gladstone Speech 28 Feb. (1885) 136 Let us not wander into the morasses and fogs of doubt. 1930 Amer. Econ. Rev. 20 3 Once this relatively dependable causeway has been thrown over the morass of earlier economic history [etc.]. 1967 C. Jackson Second-hand Life (1968) ii. 148 She had missed the one opportunity..to pull herself up out of the morass of compulsive meaningless sexuality in which she had been sinking so long. 1994 New Yorker 19 Sept. 49/2 The Christopher mission, the Administration's most high-profile effort to find a solution to the Balkan morass. 2. Caribbean. = morass weed n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > morass-weed morass1756 morass weed1756 hornwort1805 horn-weed1884 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 345 The Morass, or Morass-weed..is very common in all the brackish waters in Jamaica. 1980 F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. (ed. 2) 305/1 Morass, as an abbr of morass-weed. BL [sc. Belize]. Compounds C1. General attributive. † morass ground n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1666 J. Yonge Jrnl. (1963) (modernized text) 106 It's also very aguish and unhealthy, lying in a crude, moras ground. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 149 This Morass Ground was full of the largest Toads I ever saw. † morass-way n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1675 J. Ogilby Britannia (1698) 2 Here bear to the Left, thro' a morass-way..to Morton in the Marsh. C2. morass weed n. chiefly Caribbean the aquatic plant hornwort, Ceratophyllum demersum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > morass-weed morass1756 morass weed1756 hornwort1805 horn-weed1884 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 345 The Morass, or Morass-weed..is very common in all the brackish waters in Jamaica. 1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 785 Morass-weed. 1914 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica III. 187 C[eratophyllum] demersum..Morass Weed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1489
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