Quagmire (noun)
kwog-mire
an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
First recorded in 1570–80
Example sentences
“The entire area was like a quagmire.”
Mackle (verb) mak-ul to blur, as from a double impression in printing First used in 1585–95. A variant of earlier macle, makle; earlier macule (from the Latin macula, “spot, blemish”).…