quagmire
nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈkwæɡ.maɪə(ɹ)//
- Royaume-Uni//ˈkwɒɡ.maɪə(ɹ)//
- Canada//ˈkwæɡ.maɪɹ//
- Australie//ˈkwæɡ.mɑɪə(ɹ)//
- Australie//ˈkwɔɡ.mɑɪə(ɹ)//
A swampy, soggy area of ground.
nom
- 1
A swampy, soggy area of ground.
That quagmire regularly ‘swallows’ caught-up hikers’ boots
Never did I see a more dreary and depressing scene. Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly: miles on miles of it without a break, unless the fever fog can be called a break.
- 2
figuréA perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.
Those election results are a quagmire for any coalition except one of national union.
I’ve had my doubts about Daenerys’ ability to rule, inspired in part by the quagmire in Meereen. Still, this feels like a precipitous decline. The queen of sobriquets has always been power hungry.
The only way to know Shakespeare is through his works, and his works are textual quagmires.
Étymologie
Recorded since 1579, from quag + mire. The sense “perilous, mixed up and troubled situation” has been recorded since 1775. Alternatively, the word may apparently be a variation of the earlier quakemire, from quake + mire. Compare typologically Bulgarian тресавище (tresavište), Polish trzęsawisko, Russian тряси́на (trjasína) (akin to трясти́ (trjastí)); зыбь (zybʹ), зыбу́н (zybún) (<… Proto-Slavic *zybь).
verbe
- 1
To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty.
Formes
- pluriel
- quagmires
- passé
- quagmired
- participe passé
- quagmired
- participe présent
- quagmiring
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- quagmires
quagmire · A swampy, soggy area of ground.
quail · To waste away; to fade, to wither.Quail · A surname from Scottish Gaelic.quaint · Strange or odd; unusual.