Quagmire
11quagmire — quag|mire [ˈkwægmaıə, ˈkwɔg US ˈkwægmaır] n [C usually singular] [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: quag soft wet ground (16 20 centuries) (perhaps from quag to shake (17 19 centuries)) + mire] 1.) an area of soft wet muddy ground ▪ In the rainy season… …
12quagmire — noun (countable usually singular) 1 an area of soft wet muddy ground: In the rainy season the roads become a quagmire. 2 a difficult or complicated situation: Public housing regulations are a legislative quagmire …
13quagmire — noun 1) the field became a quagmire Syn: swamp, morass, bog, marsh, muskeg, mire, slough; archaic quag 2) a judicial quagmire Syn: muddle, mix up, mess, predicament, mare s ne …
14quagmire — UK [ˈkwæɡˌmaɪə(r)] / UK [ˈkwɒɡˌmaɪə(r)] / US [ˈkwæɡˌmaɪr] noun [countable] Word forms quagmire : singular quagmire plural quagmires 1) a situation that is so difficult or complicated that you cannot make much progress 2) mainly literary an area… …
15quagmire — quagmiry, adj. /kwag muyeur , kwog /, n. 1. an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog. 2. a situation from which extrication is very difficult: a quagmire of financial indebtedness. 3. anything soft or flabby.… …
16quagmire — [16] The now virtually defunct word quag denoted a ‘marsh’, particularly one with a top layer of turf that moved when you trod on it. Combination with mire (which also originally meant ‘marsh’, and is related to English moss) produced quagmire.… …
17quagmire — [ kwagmʌɪə, kwɒg ] noun 1》 a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot. 2》 a complex or difficult situation: a legal quagmire …
18quagmire — [16] The now virtually defunct word quag denoted a ‘marsh’, particularly one with a top layer of turf that moved when you trod on it. Combination with mire (which also originally meant ‘marsh’, and is related to English moss) produced quagmire.… …
19Quagmire family — The Quagmires are a principal family in the children s novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by American author Lemony Snicket. The unnamed Quagmire parents were members of the secret vigilante organization V.F.D. until they were killed by… …
20Quagmire's Baby — Эпизод «Гриффинов» «Quagmire s Baby» Промо картинка. Куагмир и его дочка Анна Ли …
