Mire vs Quag - What's the difference?
mire | quag |
Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
* When Caliban was lazy and neglected his work, Ariel (who was invisible to all eyes but Prospero’s) would come slyly and pinch him, and sometimes tumble him down in the mire .'' (, ''Tales from Shakespeare , Hatier, coll. « Les Classiques pour tous » n° 223, p. 51)
An undesirable situation, a predicament.
To weigh down.
To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
To soil with mud or foul matter.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) quagmire; marsh; bog.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1771
, date = December 16
, first = John
, last = Walker
, authorlink =
, title = Account of the Irruption of Solway Moss
, passage = If a person ventures on one of these quags , it bends in waves under his feet; and if the surface breaks, he is in danger of sinking to the bottom.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1784
, first = William
, last = Cowper
, authorlink = William Cowper
, title = Tirocinium; or, a Review of Schools
, passage = Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells
}}
As nouns the difference between mire and quag
is that mire is while quag is (obsolete) quagmire; marsh; bog.mire
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , whence Old English mos (English moss).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (deep mud) peatland, quagHypernyms
* (deep mud) wetlandHyponyms
* (deep mud) bog, fenDerived terms
* mire crow * mire drum * miry * in the mire * quagmireVerb
(mir)- to mire a horse or wagon
- Smirched thus and mired with infamy.