单词 | quadmire |
释义 | quadmiren. rare. = quagmire n. (in various senses). 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 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Psalms lxviii. comm. I am as one intangled with quickesand or quadmyre in the bottom of a great water. 1768 tr. Voltaire Sincere Huron x. 103 He found that all his endeavours to extricate himself from this quadmire were ineffectual. 1925 Bee (Danville, Virginia) 8 Apr. 1/5 Members of the old regime literally ‘standing aghast’ at the suggestion that ‘the one remaining figure of the glorious past’ be dragged into the quadmire of German party politics. 1945 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 17 June 5/5 [It] encourages him to continue to wallow in the quadmire of his indifferent golf. 2006 Guardian Unlimited (Nexis) 8 Feb. The game is being played at a high tempo on a complete quadmire of a pitch. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1610 |
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