单词 | quavemire |
释义 | † quavemiren. Obsolete. A quagmire. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > quaking bog mizzyc1400 quawa1500 quick-mire1509 quavemire1530 quallmire1553 quamire1555 quagmire1566 quakemire1577 gog-mire1583 quag1589 quabmire1597 quadmire1610 bog-mire1624 bumby1632 quick1648 trembling bog1697 shake-bog1815 quake1896 the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > predicament or straits > from which it is difficult to be extricated pounda1500 quavemire1530 fang1535 quamire1555 pit1577 quagmire1577 bog1614 hobble1775 vortex1779 quag1842 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. lviiv Quave myre, foundriere, crouliere. 1564 A. Bacon tr. J. Jewel Apol. Churche Eng. sig. H.vii I rather recken hilles, wodes, pools, maryshes, prisons, & quauemires, to be places of more safetie. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 206 They do winne nothing by thys distinction: seeing that they fall back into the same quavemire. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 221 Dyonisius was forced to leaue his horse sticking fast in a quaue-mire. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 529 The Lower [part] hath in it foule and slabby quavemires, yea and most troublesome fennes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1530 |
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