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quickmires

quickmires is the plural of quickmire.

Meaning of quickmire

Noun

quickmire (plural quickmires)

  1. (uncommon) A quagmire into which things easily sink, like into quicksand.
    • Yet the Cariages and Artillery could not passe at the Stakes, it was so soft with Quickmires,1864 (printed), "Off the Warre in Lancashire … in the tyme of the intestine warr that was betweene the late King Charles and the Parliament", in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the...

Questions about quickmires

What is quickmires the plural of?
Quickmires is the plural of quickmire.

Words near quickmires in the dictionary

  1. Quicklyism
  2. Quicklyisms
  3. quickmatch
  4. quickmatches
  5. quickmire
  6. quickmires
  7. quickmud
  8. quickness
  9. quicknesses
  10. quickplay
  11. quicks

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