From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2016] [wikipedia]
*** Etymology
Recorded since 1579, from [en]. The sense “perilous, mixed up and troubled
situation” has been recorded since 1775.[1]
Alternatively, the word may apparently be a variation of the earlier [en],
from [en] + [en].[2]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A swampy , soggy area of ground .
2. * [passage=Never did I see a more dreary and depressing scene. Miles on miles of QUAGMIRE , varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly: miles on miles of it without a break, unless the fever fog can be called a break.]
3. [en] A perilous , mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle .
4. * [page=168-169]
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
**** Translations
[swampy ground]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [land] [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] [colloquial] , [ja] [type of a land] , [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no] , [no]
- Old Church Slavonic: [cu]
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa]
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[perilous, mixed up and troubled situation]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
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- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Korean: [ko]
- Mandarin: [cmn]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty.
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:Online Etymology Dictionary]
[2]. [R:Century 1911] .
- [R:OneLook] .
[en]