Groonkly Bit: Now with Words


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Word of the Day

mire (noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb)[mier]

noun
1. moist, spongy earth; a bog
2. deep mud: “We felt the front wheels of our truck sink into the mire.”
3. an undesireable situation; a predicament; ‘the mire of poverty’

transitive verb
4. to weigh down
5. to soil with mud or dirt

intransitive verb
6. to sink or become stuck in mud

Origin

Approximately 1300; from Old Norse, ‘myrr’: bog, swamp; related to Old English, ‘mos’: bog.

To be mired in self-doubt and overthought is to dig a little bit of your own grave every day.