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quagmiry

quagmiry adjective: like a quagmire.

Adjective

quagmiry (comparative more quagmiry, superlative most quagmiry)

  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

Forms of quagmiry

comparativemore quagmiry
superlativemost quagmiry

Origin of quagmiry

From quagmire + -y.

Questions about quagmiry

What does quagmiry mean?
Quagmiry means like a quagmire.
What part of speech is quagmiry?
Quagmiry is an adjective.

Words near quagmiry in the dictionary

  1. quagmired
  2. quagmires
  3. quagmirical
  4. quagmiring
  5. quagmirish
  6. quagmiry
  7. quags
  8. Quah
  9. quahaug
  10. quahauged
  11. quahauging

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