quagmiry

quagmiry

English

Etymology

quagmire +‎ -y

Adjective

quagmiry (comparative more quagmiry, superlative most quagmiry)

1. Like a quagmire.
   • 1873, Henry Morton Stanley, My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave

     The quagmiry road, trodden into tenacious paste by the long file of human beings ahead […]

   • 1965, James Anson Graham, B A Phythian, Manchester Grammar School, 1515-1965

     […] Saturday morning volunteers doing rather ineffectual levelling work on the very quagmiry site […]