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quagmire(dictionary)

samogon (iou) and quagmire (iou)


samogon (iou)



samogon noun. E20.
[Russian, from samo- self + gon- stem of gnat' distill.]
In countries of the former USSR, an illegally distilled spirit similar to vodka.

quagmire (iou)



quagmire noun & verb. L16.
[from QUAG noun, verb + MIRE noun1.]
A. noun.
A wet boggy area of land that gives way underfoot; a fen, a marsh. L16.
D. Garnett Smith stepped into a quagmire in which he sank up to his middle.
transf. & fig.
a. Anything soft, flabby, or yielding. M17.
T. Brown The rich..drown'd in foggy quagmires of fat and dropsy.
b. An awkward, complex, or hazardous situation. L18.
A. France Trust them..to guide us through the quagmire of our own conflicts.
b. verb trans. In pass. Be sunk or stuck in a quagmire. rare. E18.
quagmiry adjective (rare) of the Nature of a quagmire; boggy: M17.