| 单词 | quick-mire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquick-mire quick-mire n. now rare a quagmire. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > quaking bog mizzyc1400 quawa1500 quick-mire1509 quavemire1530 quallmire1553 quamire1555 quagmire1566 quakemire1577 gog-mire1583 quag1589 quabmire1597 quadmire1610 bog-mire1624 bumby1632 quick1648 trembling bog1697 shake-bog1815 quake1896 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) xxxii. sig. H.v An euyll wyfe hathe nought ado to departe from her house, leste that she go not in to the quycke myre. 1583 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 12 A place, where Springs, Quick-mires, and Bogs are. c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 226 All wagged his fleche as a Quyk myre. 1649 tr. R. Descartes Disc. Method iii. 46 All my designe tended onely to fix my self, and to avoid quick-mires and sands, that I might finde rock and clay. 1745 J. Graham Simon Pure Unmask'd 26 Opinion not grounded upon Reason seldom fails of leading Men into Bogs and quick Mires. 1889 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words (ed. 11) II. 658/2 [Devon] Quickmire, a quagmire. a1954 G. Derwood Poems (1955) 55 Who to a star up-stretched sinks in quick-mire. < as lemmas |
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