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quagmiry en · ADJ

Etymology

From quagmire + -y.

Meanings

1. Like a quagmire.
   • The quagmiry road, trodden into tenacious paste by the long file of human beings ahead […] 1873, Henry Morton Stanley, My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave:
   • […] Saturday morning volunteers doing rather ineffectual levelling work on the very quagmiry site […] 1965, James Anson Graham, B A Phythian, Manchester Grammar School, 1515-1965:

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