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quackmire

quackmire is the archaic spelling of quagmire.

Meaning of quagmire

Noun

quagmire (plural quagmires)

  1. A swampy, soggy area of ground.
    • That quagmire regularly ‘swallows’ caught-up hikers’ boots
    Synonyms:
    marsh, marshland, mire, quag
  2. (figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
    • The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.

See all 3 meanings of quagmire

Forms of quackmire

pluralquackmires

Questions about quackmire

What is quackmire the archaic spelling of?
Quackmire is the archaic spelling of quagmire.

Words near quackmire in the dictionary

  1. quackled
  2. quackles
  3. quackless
  4. quacklike
  5. quackling
  6. quackmire
  7. quackmires
  8. quacks
  9. quacksalver
  10. quacksalveries
  11. quacksalvers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quackmire (page history and authors); quagmire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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