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quagmiry

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quag⋅mire

[kwag-mahyuhr, kwog-]
–noun
1. an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
2. a situation from which extrication is very difficult: a quagmire of financial indebtedness.
3. anything soft or flabby.

Origin:
1570–80; quag + mire


quagmiry, adjective


2. predicament, dilemma, quandary, scrape, jam.
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