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quagmiry

adj

Etymology

From quagmire + -y.

  1. derived from *morwi-✻ — “ant”
  2. inherited from *miurijǭ✻ — “ant”
  3. inherited from *miurijā✻
  4. inherited from *mȳre✻
  5. inherited from mire
  6. formed as quagmire — “quag + mire”
  7. suffixed as quagmiry — “quagmire + y”

Definitions

  1. Like a quagmire.

    • The quagmiry road, trodden into tenacious paste by the long file of human beings ahead […]
    • […] Saturday morning volunteers doing rather ineffectual levelling work on the very quagmiry site […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quagmiry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA