quagmiren.

Brit.

/ˈkwaɡmʌɪə/,

/ˈkwɒɡmʌɪə/, U.S.

/ˈkwæɡˌmaɪ(ə)r/,

/ˈkwɑɡˌmaɪ(ə)r/

Forms: 1500s wagmoire, 1500s–1600s quagmyre, 1500s– quagmire, 1600s wagmire.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an element of uncertain origin, mire n.¹

Etymology: < a first element of uncertain origin (related to quag n. and quag v.¹) + mire n.¹The first element is perhaps ultimately of imitative origin, although compare earlier quab n.¹ Compare also quaw n., and a large number of synonyms of quagmire n. with a first element of similar form, in use in the 16th and 17th centuries (see earlier quallmire n., quamire n., quavemire n., quawmire at quaw n., and later quabmire n., quadmire n., quakemire n.; compare also later bog-mire n. at bog n.¹ Compounds 4, gog-mire n. at gog n.³ Compounds). The precise relationship of these to each other is not clear: all, or most, may be independent attempts to express the same idea (compare discussion at quake v.¹). Perhaps compare also wag v., swag v. Perhaps compare also the Lancashire surname Gilb. del Quaghe (1351–2). N.E.D. (1902) gives the pronunciation as (kwæ·gməi^əɹ) /ˈkwæɡmaɪə(r)/, as do the 19th-cent. dictionaries. All editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. up to the 14th (1988) give this as the main pronunciation and that with the rounded vowel of bog as an alternative. In the U.S., pronunciation with the vowel of bog is given as an alternative in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1934) and subsequent dictionaries.

1. An area of wet, boggy land that gives way under foot; a quaking bog.

ΘΚΠ

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

mizzyc1400

quawa1500

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quallmire1553

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quag1589

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bog-mire1624

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trembling bog1697

shake-bog1815

quake1896

1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse ix. xxxix. f. 90^v On ye one side were Quagmyres & foggy marshes, on the other side were falling trenches and ditches.

?1575 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. (new ed.) 366 There be so many quagmires, wherein to bee myred.

1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all 26 They come to bogs and quagmyres, much like to them in Ireland.

1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 120 [Holland is] the greatest Bogg of Europe, and Quagmire of Christendom.

1713 N. Carolina Colonial Rec. (1886) II. 45 About 50 or 60 men of them got together between Machepungo River and Roanoke Island which is..all in a manner lakes, quagmires, and cane swamps.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 131 The quagmire being pierced..is found no where above two feet deep.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xiv. 129 The excessive rains..had converted the whole country into a mere quagmire.

1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 47 To reach the mountain crest without sinking miserably in a quagmire.

1932 J. Masefield Coll. Poems 54 We tore it through the marshes in a half-score battered chests, Sinking, in the sucking quagmires to the sunburn on our breasts.

1991 J. Chang Wild Swans (1993) ii. 74 In the spring, as the ice thawed, the ground around the hut turned to a quagmire.

2. In extended use.

a. A position or situation which is unpleasant or hazardous; esp. one from which it is difficult to extricate oneself.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > predicament or straits > from which it is difficult to be extricated

pounda1500

quavemire1530

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quamire1555

pit1577

quagmire1577

bog1614

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quag1842

1577 T. Rogers tr. S. à Geveren Of Ende of World Pref. sig. **iii^v All mistrust and vnbeliefe, the Quagmyre of all maner of wickednesse..may earnestly be cast away.

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. R3^v Both Scripture, Councels, and Fathers..haue detested and abhorred this filthy dauncing, as the quagmire or puddle of all abhomination.

1614 Bp. J. King Vitis Palatina 30 Quagmires and bogges of Romish superstition.

a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 200 Our observation must not..plounce into the mudd and quagmire of the people's power and right pretended.

1705 E. Ward Fair Shell ii. 36 That Quagmire, where all Rebels first combine, And form the Scheme of every black Design.

1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. iv I have followed Cupid's Jack-a-lantern, and find myself in a quagmire at last.

1851 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 116 925 The noble Lord..[is] in a quagmire, and he [knows] it well.

1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1875) v. ii. 178 Many a fine intellect has been driven into the deep quagmire.

1965 C. Richter Sea of Grass Introd. p. xviii I felt I had lured myself into a quagmire.

1996 Sunday Tel. 4 Feb. 22/7 A considerable portion of the meagre UN handout has been poured into the judicial quagmire that his case has become.

b. Something soft, flabby, or yielding.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > flabbiness or flaccidity > that which is

quagmirea1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. vi. 87 And make a Quagmire of your mingled braines.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. xii. 50 Thy flesh, a trembling Bogge, a Quagmire full of humors.

1658 T. C. in T. Flatman Naps upon Parnassus sig. B3 Upon the Gurmundizing Quagmires and most Adiaphanous Bogs, of the Author's obnubilated Roundelayes.

a1704 T. Brown Wks. (1707) I. 144 The Rich are Corpulent, drown'd in Foggy Quagmires of Fat and Dropsie.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 627 The indurated patches seem, in some cases, to be fixed upon a quagmire of offensive fluid.

1843 T. Carlyle Let. 6 Jan. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle XVI. 6 Like building a dry brick-house out of a quagmire of clay and glar!

1913 E. Ferber Roast Beef Medium i. 1 That road which leads..over hills of corned-beef hash, across shaking quagmires of veal glacé, plunging into sloughs of slaw.

1998 Independent on Sunday 13 Sept. (Culture section) 4/5 Half of American actordom is there, thrashing about in a quagmire of fake offal.

Derivatives

ˈquagmire-like adj. of the nature of a quagmire; boggy.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mollasse,..quagmire-like.

1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 230 The wayes are so quagmire-like, that for ordinary Travellers they are scarcely passable.

1873 J. E. Garretson Thinkers & Thinking 155 Every ground upon which,..he had placed the foundation of his hopes and of his faith, had in time, quagmire-like, sunk under him.

1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 3 Apr. d3 He was playing with other youngsters when he became stuck in the quagmire-like pond.

ˈquagmirist n. a person who is, or believes others to be, inextricably involved in some unpleasant situation.

ΚΠ

?1609 J. Healey tr. Bp. J. Hall Discouery New World i. vi. 83 sig. G2 This Quagmirist it seemes was well esteemed amongst them, for hee had a statue erected him in Bacchus his court.

1655 R. Younge Blemish of Govt. 4 These drunken drones, these gut-mongers, these Quagmirists.

1994 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Feb. 17 Weakness costs lives. The quagmirists appear now to be wrong in their fears of interminable involvement of US ground troops.

ˈquagmiry adj. of the nature of a quagmire; boggy; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

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

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fennyc1000

mooryOE

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morassic1893

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swamped1899

1623 J. Balmford Modest Reply Gataker 45 How then may a scrupulous man, who remembreth not onely his wicked wicked wayes, but his deedes also that are not good, build vpon such quagmiry grounds?

1637 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1825) (modernized text) I. 233 A most hideous swamp, so thick with bushes and so quagmiry.

1767 Trial England’s Cicero 37 Supinely laid bodies, belly-upward, which could afford but very quagmiry walking for the devil, or any other.

1872 Littell's Living Age 27 Jan. 207/2 Before this could be effected, he had still had one quagmiry scrape to wade through.

1999 Wausau (W.I.) Daily Herald (Nexis) 12 Aug. c1 Scarcely had the truck negotiated a mile of this quagmiry terrain when the radio crackled.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quagmire
释义	quagmiren. Brit. /ˈkwaɡmʌɪə/, /ˈkwɒɡmʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈkwæɡˌmaɪ(ə)r/, /ˈkwɑɡˌmaɪ(ə)r/ Forms: 1500s wagmoire, 1500s–1600s quagmyre, 1500s– quagmire, 1600s wagmire. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: an element of uncertain origin, mire n.¹ Etymology: < a first element of uncertain origin (related to quag n. and quag v.¹) + mire n.¹The first element is perhaps ultimately of imitative origin, although compare earlier quab n.¹ Compare also quaw n., and a large number of synonyms of quagmire n. with a first element of similar form, in use in the 16th and 17th centuries (see earlier quallmire n., quamire n., quavemire n., quawmire at quaw n., and later quabmire n., quadmire n., quakemire n.; compare also later bog-mire n. at bog n.¹ Compounds 4, gog-mire n. at gog n.³ Compounds). The precise relationship of these to each other is not clear: all, or most, may be independent attempts to express the same idea (compare discussion at quake v.¹). Perhaps compare also wag v., swag v. Perhaps compare also the Lancashire surname Gilb. del Quaghe (1351–2). N.E.D. (1902) gives the pronunciation as (kwæ·gməi^əɹ) /ˈkwæɡmaɪə(r)/, as do the 19th-cent. dictionaries. All editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. up to the 14th (1988) give this as the main pronunciation and that with the rounded vowel of bog as an alternative. In the U.S., pronunciation with the vowel of bog is given as an alternative in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1934) and subsequent dictionaries. 1. An area of wet, boggy land that gives way under foot; a quaking bog. 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 1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse ix. xxxix. f. 90^v On ye one side were Quagmyres & foggy marshes, on the other side were falling trenches and ditches. ?1575 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. (new ed.) 366 There be so many quagmires, wherein to bee myred. 1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all 26 They come to bogs and quagmyres, much like to them in Ireland. 1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 120 [Holland is] the greatest Bogg of Europe, and Quagmire of Christendom. 1713 N. Carolina Colonial Rec. (1886) II. 45 About 50 or 60 men of them got together between Machepungo River and Roanoke Island which is..all in a manner lakes, quagmires, and cane swamps. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 131 The quagmire being pierced..is found no where above two feet deep. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xiv. 129 The excessive rains..had converted the whole country into a mere quagmire. 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 47 To reach the mountain crest without sinking miserably in a quagmire. 1932 J. Masefield Coll. Poems 54 We tore it through the marshes in a half-score battered chests, Sinking, in the sucking quagmires to the sunburn on our breasts. 1991 J. Chang Wild Swans (1993) ii. 74 In the spring, as the ice thawed, the ground around the hut turned to a quagmire. 2. In extended use. a. A position or situation which is unpleasant or hazardous; esp. one from which it is difficult to extricate oneself. ΘΚΠ 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 1577 T. Rogers tr. S. à Geveren Of Ende of World Pref. sig. *iii^v All mistrust and vnbeliefe, the Quagmyre of all maner of wickednesse..may earnestly be cast away. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses* sig. R3^v Both Scripture, Councels, and Fathers..haue detested and abhorred this filthy dauncing, as the quagmire or puddle of all abhomination. 1614 Bp. J. King Vitis Palatina 30 Quagmires and bogges of Romish superstition. a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 200 Our observation must not..plounce into the mudd and quagmire of the people's power and right pretended. 1705 E. Ward Fair Shell ii. 36 That Quagmire, where all Rebels first combine, And form the Scheme of every black Design. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. iv I have followed Cupid's Jack-a-lantern, and find myself in a quagmire at last. 1851 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 116 925 The noble Lord..[is] in a quagmire, and he [knows] it well. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1875) v. ii. 178 Many a fine intellect has been driven into the deep quagmire. 1965 C. Richter Sea of Grass Introd. p. xviii I felt I had lured myself into a quagmire. 1996 Sunday Tel. 4 Feb. 22/7 A considerable portion of the meagre UN handout has been poured into the judicial quagmire that his case has become. b. Something soft, flabby, or yielding. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > flabbiness or flaccidity > that which is quagmirea1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. vi. 87 And make a Quagmire of your mingled braines. View more context for this quotation 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. xii. 50 Thy flesh, a trembling Bogge, a Quagmire full of humors. 1658 T. C. in T. Flatman Naps upon Parnassus sig. B3 Upon the Gurmundizing Quagmires and most Adiaphanous Bogs, of the Author's obnubilated Roundelayes. a1704 T. Brown Wks. (1707) I. 144 The Rich are Corpulent, drown'd in Foggy Quagmires of Fat and Dropsie. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 627 The indurated patches seem, in some cases, to be fixed upon a quagmire of offensive fluid. 1843 T. Carlyle Let. 6 Jan. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle XVI. 6 Like building a dry brick-house out of a quagmire of clay and glar! 1913 E. Ferber Roast Beef Medium i. 1 That road which leads..over hills of corned-beef hash, across shaking quagmires of veal glacé, plunging into sloughs of slaw. 1998 Independent on Sunday 13 Sept. (Culture section) 4/5 Half of American actordom is there, thrashing about in a quagmire of fake offal. Derivatives ˈquagmire-like adj. of the nature of a quagmire; boggy. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mollasse,..quagmire-like. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 230 The wayes are so quagmire-like, that for ordinary Travellers they are scarcely passable. 1873 J. E. Garretson Thinkers & Thinking 155 Every ground upon which,..he had placed the foundation of his hopes and of his faith, had in time, quagmire-like, sunk under him. 1991 Washington Post (Nexis) 3 Apr. d3 He was playing with other youngsters when he became stuck in the quagmire-like pond. ˈquagmirist n. a person who is, or believes others to be, inextricably involved in some unpleasant situation. ΚΠ ?1609 J. Healey tr. Bp. J. Hall Discouery New World i. vi. 83 sig. G2 This Quagmirist it seemes was well esteemed amongst them, for hee had a statue erected him in Bacchus his court. 1655 R. Younge Blemish of Govt. 4 These drunken drones, these gut-mongers, these Quagmirists. 1994 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Feb. 17 Weakness costs lives. The quagmirists appear now to be wrong in their fears of interminable involvement of US ground troops. ˈquagmiry adj. of the nature of a quagmire; boggy; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] fen-lichc1000 fennyc1000 mooryOE marshya1382 marshlyc1410 moorisha1492 queachy?a1500 marish1549 plashya1552 foggy?1555 fen-like1561 undrained1573 fennish1577 boggy1587 paludious1595 wealy1601 marishy1607 snapy1607 uliginous1610 quagmiry1623 paludiate1632 boggish1633 pooly1652 swampy1661 spouty1677 gouty1686 pondy1687 morassy1699 sloppy1699 lairy17.. soggya1722 swampish1725 splashy1727 squashy1751 haggy1765 gaulty1784 slumpy1823 sumpy1824 paludine1852 paludic1854 paludinal1856 paludian1860 paludinous1866 paludal1871 paludial1875 morassic1893 muskeggy1894 swamped1899 1623 J. Balmford Modest Reply Gataker 45 How then may a scrupulous man, who remembreth not onely his wicked wicked wayes, but his deedes also that are not good, build vpon such quagmiry grounds? 1637 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1825) (modernized text) I. 233 A most hideous swamp, so thick with bushes and so quagmiry. 1767 Trial England’s Cicero 37 Supinely laid bodies, belly-upward, which could afford but very quagmiry walking for the devil, or any other. 1872 Littell's Living Age 27 Jan. 207/2 Before this could be effected, he had still had one quagmiry scrape to wade through. 1999 Wausau (W.I.) Daily Herald (Nexis) 12 Aug. c1 Scarcely had the truck negotiated a mile of this quagmiry terrain when the radio crackled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quagmirev. Brit. /ˈkwaɡmʌɪə/, /ˈkwɒɡmʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈkwæɡˌmaɪ(ə)r/, /ˈkwɑɡˌmaɪ(ə)r/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quagmire n. Etymology: < quagmire n. Chiefly figurative. transitive. To sink or place in a quagmire. Only in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (intransitive)] > come to an impasse or be stuck to stick in the claya1475 stick1534 stale1597 cumber1600 to stick in the mud1603 straita1616 strand1687 quagmire1701 stog1855 slew1890 bunker1894 bog1928 to be bogged1953 1701 Laconics 120 When a reader has been quagmired in a dull heavy book. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 42/2 A man is never quagmired till he stops. 1938 Southtown Economist (Chicago) 14 July 1/4 This idea..was quagmired when the authorities remembered that the old Ridge park board had made a down payment of $13,400 on the land. 1991 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 241/1 Paglia came under the gnomic spell of Bloom, a whirring mind quagmired in a pudding of flesh. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1566v.1701
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quagmiren.

Derivatives

quagmirev.