quicksandn.

Brit.

/ˈkwɪksand/, U.S.

/ˈkwɪkˌsænd/

Forms: see quick adj., n.¹, and adv. and sand n.²

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: quick adj., sand n.²

Etymology: < quick adj. + sand n.² Compare early modern Dutch quicsant, quicksand (apparently only in editions of Kiliaan and there labelled archaic), Middle Low German quiksant (German regional (Low German) Quicksand), German Quicksand (a1790; now rare; probably < Low German), Icelandic kviksandur, Swedish kvicksand, early modern Danish qvægsand (Danish kviksand, kvægsand).It has been suggested that Old English cwecesond (one isolated attestation) may represent the same word:eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 73 Aurippus [read euripus], cwecesond.However, the correct reading of the Latin lemma is euripus (classical Latin eurīpus ) channel or strait with a violent current (see Euripus n.), and it seems more likely that the first element of the Old English compound is related to cweccan quetch v.; the second element perhaps represents sund sea, water (see sound n.¹). With quicksanded adj. compare later quicksand v.

a. A bed or mass of quicksand (see sense 1b).Quot. a1300 is a late copy of a charter of 1145–8.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > quicksand

quick gravela1300

quicksanda1300

sucking sand1513

Syrtis1526

sinking sand1531

syrt1574

Serbonian boga1618

flow1819

a1300 ( Charter in Early Yorks. Charters (Yorks. Archæol. Soc.) (1939) VI. 133 lx acras de propria hereditate quam tenet de nobis..scilicet illam terram..ultra quicsand.

1300 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1836) III. 115 Et a capite dicti gardini ascendendo per le Stonibrok' usque le Quyksond; Et sic del Quyksond ascendendo per quandam viam usque le Merok'.

c1450 (c1430) Brut (Galba) (1913) 306 (MED) He brought hem thorough a quyke sande and so into an yle.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xli It is in maner of a quickesande, that harde it is for any thing to go ouer.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Quycke sandes or shelues, syrtes.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 753 Uncertaine sands..ready to catch and swallow, they call them Quick-sands.

1744 E. Purefoy Let. 30 Nov. in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) II. xii. 314 There is..a quick sand in the lane..that my coachman with his coach horse was like to be mired in it.

1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 870 Conscious that there lay..quicksands in his way.

1802 A. Ellicott Jrnl. (1803) 120 When the water is low, you have high muddy banks, quick-sands, and sand bars.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. v. 62 I was sinking in a quicksand!

1967 D. D. Gladwin & J. M. White Eng. Canals i. iv. 40 They met with an extensive quicksand.

2000 Independent 12 June i. 11/2 Reading the big tides and knowing where the treacherous quicksands and unseen hollows might form are timeless survival skills on the estuary.

b. Fine, loose sand that is usually saturated with water and semi-liquid, tending to suck down objects that rest on its surface.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > sand > types of

sea-sandc1220

black sand1536

gold sand1578

quicksand1641

iron sand1681

crag1735

Bude sand1808

musical sand1858

sounding sand1884

singing sand1897

squeaking sand1966

1641 G. Walker Hist. Creation v. 95 Now it may seeme strange, that this one and the same rude masse should bee like earth, and like a bottomlesse depth of myre or quick-sand, and like waters, all at once.

1787 R. Whitworth Observ. Water of Leith 19 I have seen a great deal of digging in quicksand, and many foundations of Locks, Bridges, and other buildings laid.

1859 R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler iii. 75 A man incurs no danger in walking over quicksand provided he step rapidly.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 167 Quicksand, sand which is..shifting, easily movable or semi-liquid.

1923 J. H. Cook Fifty Years on Old Frontier 98 The Niabrara River..was about fifty yards wide and four feet deep, with a very quick current and plenty of quicksand.

2000 Times 11 Jan. 2/8 Police and six firefighters used a ladder and rope to save an 85-year-old man from quicksand about 100 metres from the shoreline.

2. figurative (frequently in plural). Applied to a thing (occasionally a person) having the absorbent, yielding, or treacherous character of quicksand.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > insecurity > insecurity or untrustworthiness > thing

quicksand1589

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > insecurity > insecurity or untrustworthiness > person

quicksand1589

1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Aiij^v I desire not to cast it out as a block..but as a Sea-marke to discouer the quicksands of newe Religions.

1591 J. Florio Second Frutes xii. sig. Z 4 As for loue towards women it is a two edged sworde; an eating worme or moth, a gulph or quicksand.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iv. sig. H4 I am a poore poore Orphant..the very Ouze, The quick sand that deuours all miserie.

1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one i. sig. A3 Swallowed in the quick-sands of Law-quillits.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) v. iv. 26 What [is] Clarence, but a Quick-sand of Deceit?

1697 J. Woodward Acct. Relig. Societies London in Earnest Admon. Young Persons 253 Self-conceit..is a Quick-Sand in which thousands have been swallowed up.

1709 S. Acton Fruit from Canaan 186 Ready to sink and drown in the Quicksands of carnal Pleasures!

1781 W. Cowper Progress of Error 552 Sinking in the quicksand he defends, He dies disputing.

1858 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. London 21 40 In basing the future of his house upon patronage, he based it upon a quicksand liable to be removed by every change of party.

1879 R. W. Church Spenser 161 He once more tried the quicksands of the Court.

1965 P. Arrowsmith Jericho (1983) xvi. 163 Already by confiding in her..he had trodden unwarily into the quicksand of emotional dependence on her.

2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 Jan. b1 Efforts to take..prisons, lotteries and other state assets private can quickly become mired in political quicksand.

Derivatives

ˈquicksanded adj. full of quicksand, having quicksands.

ΚΠ

1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 30 Many men..forsake the calmes of their owne happy fortunes, to arriue on these quicksanded Shores.

1744 Man Superior to Woman 14 Wasted and destroy'd in their Passages through these quick-sanded baneful Channels.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 11 June 5/2 The man who at sixty-one years of age..was crossing unbridged quick-sanded rivers.

1945 J. Marshall Santa Fe (ed. 4) viii. 114 They thrived on obstacles and loved a fight, whether against a snow-capped lava mountain, a quick-sanded stream or a war party of Cheyennes.

ˈquicksandy adj. of the nature of or characterized by quicksand.

ΚΠ

1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket vi. 270 The rotten, moorish, quicke-sandy grounds, that some haue set their edifices on.

1738 J. Thomson Sir Solomon Gundi 48 Thrice raised from Quick Sandy clay.

1857 J. G. Parke & A. H. Campbell Gen. Rep. (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific VII) i. 10 [In] the rainy season..there is more or less danger in crossing, owing to the quicksandy nature of the beds.

a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) vi. 50 Thousands of acres, unpathed, quicksandy.

1995 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 1 Oct. 45 a He lectured on the sometimes salty, always quicksandy, meandering river to a gathering of the East Texas Historical Association.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quicksand
释义	quicksandn. Brit. /ˈkwɪksand/, U.S. /ˈkwɪkˌsænd/ Forms: see quick adj., n.¹, and adv. and sand n.² Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: quick adj., sand n.² Etymology: < quick adj. + sand n.² Compare early modern Dutch quicsant, quicksand (apparently only in editions of Kiliaan and there labelled archaic), Middle Low German quiksant (German regional (Low German) Quicksand), German Quicksand (a1790; now rare; probably < Low German), Icelandic kviksandur, Swedish kvicksand, early modern Danish qvægsand (Danish kviksand, kvægsand).It has been suggested that Old English cwecesond (one isolated attestation) may represent the same word:eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 73 Aurippus [read euripus], cwecesond.However, the correct reading of the Latin lemma is euripus (classical Latin eurīpus ) channel or strait with a violent current (see Euripus n.), and it seems more likely that the first element of the Old English compound is related to cweccan quetch v.; the second element perhaps represents sund sea, water (see sound n.¹). With quicksanded adj. compare later quicksand v. 1. a. A bed or mass of quicksand (see sense 1b).Quot. a1300 is a late copy of a charter of 1145–8. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > quicksand quick gravela1300 quicksanda1300 sucking sand1513 Syrtis1526 sinking sand1531 syrt1574 Serbonian boga1618 flow1819 a1300 ( Charter in Early Yorks. Charters (Yorks. Archæol. Soc.) (1939) VI. 133 lx acras de propria hereditate quam tenet de nobis..scilicet illam terram..ultra quicsand. 1300 in Collectanea Topographica & Genealogica (1836) III. 115 Et a capite dicti gardini ascendendo per le Stonibrok' usque le Quyksond; Et sic del Quyksond ascendendo per quandam viam usque le Merok'. c1450 (c1430) Brut (Galba) (1913) 306 (MED) He brought hem thorough a quyke sande and so into an yle. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xli It is in maner of a quickesande, that harde it is for any thing to go ouer. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Quycke sandes or shelues, syrtes. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 753 Uncertaine sands..ready to catch and swallow, they call them Quick-sands. 1744 E. Purefoy Let. 30 Nov. in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) II. xii. 314 There is..a quick sand in the lane..that my coachman with his coach horse was like to be mired in it. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 870 Conscious that there lay..quicksands in his way. View more context for this quotation 1802 A. Ellicott Jrnl. (1803) 120 When the water is low, you have high muddy banks, quick-sands, and sand bars. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. v. 62 I was sinking in a quicksand! 1967 D. D. Gladwin & J. M. White Eng. Canals i. iv. 40 They met with an extensive quicksand. 2000 Independent 12 June i. 11/2 Reading the big tides and knowing where the treacherous quicksands and unseen hollows might form are timeless survival skills on the estuary. b. Fine, loose sand that is usually saturated with water and semi-liquid, tending to suck down objects that rest on its surface. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > sand > types of sea-sandc1220 black sand1536 gold sand1578 quicksand1641 iron sand1681 crag1735 Bude sand1808 musical sand1858 sounding sand1884 singing sand1897 squeaking sand1966 1641 G. Walker Hist. Creation v. 95 Now it may seeme strange, that this one and the same rude masse should bee like earth, and like a bottomlesse depth of myre or quick-sand, and like waters, all at once. 1787 R. Whitworth Observ. Water of Leith 19 I have seen a great deal of digging in quicksand, and many foundations of Locks, Bridges, and other buildings laid. 1859 R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler iii. 75 A man incurs no danger in walking over quicksand provided he step rapidly. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 167 Quicksand, sand which is..shifting, easily movable or semi-liquid. 1923 J. H. Cook Fifty Years on Old Frontier 98 The Niabrara River..was about fifty yards wide and four feet deep, with a very quick current and plenty of quicksand. 2000 Times 11 Jan. 2/8 Police and six firefighters used a ladder and rope to save an 85-year-old man from quicksand about 100 metres from the shoreline. 2. figurative (frequently in plural). Applied to a thing (occasionally a person) having the absorbent, yielding, or treacherous character of quicksand. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > insecurity > insecurity or untrustworthiness > thing quicksand1589 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > insecurity > insecurity or untrustworthiness > person quicksand1589 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Aiij^v I desire not to cast it out as a block..but as a Sea-marke to discouer the quicksands of newe Religions. 1591 J. Florio Second Frutes xii. sig. Z 4 As for loue towards women it is a two edged sworde; an eating worme or moth, a gulph or quicksand. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iv. sig. H4 I am a poore poore Orphant..the very Ouze, The quick sand that deuours all miserie. 1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one i. sig. A3 Swallowed in the quick-sands of Law-quillits. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) v. iv. 26 What [is] Clarence, but a Quick-sand of Deceit? View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Woodward Acct. Relig. Societies London in Earnest Admon. Young Persons 253 Self-conceit..is a Quick-Sand in which thousands have been swallowed up. 1709 S. Acton Fruit from Canaan 186 Ready to sink and drown in the Quicksands of carnal Pleasures! 1781 W. Cowper Progress of Error 552 Sinking in the quicksand he defends, He dies disputing. 1858 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. London 21 40 In basing the future of his house upon patronage, he based it upon a quicksand liable to be removed by every change of party. 1879 R. W. Church Spenser 161 He once more tried the quicksands of the Court. 1965 P. Arrowsmith Jericho (1983) xvi. 163 Already by confiding in her..he had trodden unwarily into the quicksand of emotional dependence on her. 2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 26 Jan. b1 Efforts to take..prisons, lotteries and other state assets private can quickly become mired in political quicksand. Derivatives ˈquicksanded adj. full of quicksand, having quicksands. ΚΠ 1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 30 Many men..forsake the calmes of their owne happy fortunes, to arriue on these quicksanded Shores. 1744 Man Superior to Woman 14 Wasted and destroy'd in their Passages through these quick-sanded baneful Channels. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 11 June 5/2 The man who at sixty-one years of age..was crossing unbridged quick-sanded rivers. 1945 J. Marshall Santa Fe (ed. 4) viii. 114 They thrived on obstacles and loved a fight, whether against a snow-capped lava mountain, a quick-sanded stream or a war party of Cheyennes. ˈquicksandy adj. of the nature of or characterized by quicksand. ΚΠ 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket vi. 270 The rotten, moorish, quicke-sandy grounds, that some haue set their edifices on. 1738 J. Thomson Sir Solomon Gundi 48 Thrice raised from Quick Sandy clay. 1857 J. G. Parke & A. H. Campbell Gen. Rep. (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific VII) i. 10 [In] the rainy season..there is more or less danger in crossing, owing to the quicksandy nature of the beds. a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) vi. 50 Thousands of acres, unpathed, quicksandy. 1995 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 1 Oct. 45 a He lectured on the sometimes salty, always quicksandy, meandering river to a gathering of the East Texas Historical Association. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quicksandv. Brit. /ˈkwɪksand/, U.S. /ˈkwɪkˌsænd/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quicksand n. Etymology: < quicksand n. transitive (chiefly in passive). To be stuck in quicksand. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > be rendered immobile [verb (passive)] > be stuck in mud, bog, or sand stalla1500 gravel1582 swamp1790 mud1854 stog1855 stodge1873 quicksand1875 1875 V. Fane Denzil Place ii. viii. 154 Toss'd into port from some mysterious sea, Quick-sanded, and of dangerous ebb and flow. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 20 May 5/2 The animal and the cart became quicksanded. 1947 Middletown (N. Y.) Times Herald 10 Nov. 4/3 Riven by civil war..and quicksanded in seemingly bottomless political corruption. 1999 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 20 Mar. r28 We look at the soft boggy sand... The fear of getting quick-sanded sends me back the long way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1300v.1875
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quicksandn.

Derivatives

quicksandv.