quagmirePronunciation: /ˈkwagmʌɪə, ˈkwɒg-/Translate quagmire | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of quagmire noun a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot:torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire an awkward, complex, or hazardous situation:a legal quagmireOrigin: late 16th century: from quag + mirequagmire in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of quagmire in the US English dictionary