Serbonian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Serbonian
1660–70; < Greek Serbōní ( s ) ( límnē ) Serbonian (marsh) + -an
Example Sentences
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That avenue was nicknamed “the great Serbonian bog.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2017
Many a passage in it will seem to you at first a worse than Serbonian bog—a cave of impenetrable and undistinguishable darkness.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart
Young students often get swamped and lose their way in Serbonian bogs of learning, when they need to explore only a simple and plain pathway to a specific destination.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
The first is deeper than the Serbonian bog, and would swallow up the whole British army.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
He finds his age or country stuck in some Serbonian bog of iniquity.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
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