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Re: Favourite word associated with quicksand?
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 7:33 am
by fp450+7
Suction
Re: Favourite word associated with quicksand?
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 5:05 pm
by lepas
"thick peat", surely
Re: Favourite word associated with quicksand?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:22 pm
by montesuma
SOUNDS: champ, smacking, gurgle.
ACTIONS: sucking, pulling down, hugs, does not let go, drowning.
PROPERTIES: marshy, viscous, hungry, thick.
EXISTENT: swamp, bog, mess, porridge, mire.
P.S.Perhaps the translation is not entirely accurate (((
Re: Favourite word associated with quicksand?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:21 pm
by somebodyelse
Caught, trapped, sinking, sucked/sucking, swallowed/swallowing. Of course, there's also the sudden harried cry for help, (Oh Nonono!! I'm caught in Quicksand followed by "Save me!!" and then the pieces de resistance: "Oh God!! I can't get my arms out!!! Nooooooooooo!!!!!! Pleeeeaaasseee!!! I'm being swallowed Alive!!!!
Re: Favourite word associated with quicksand?
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 5:48 am
by Ladyinneed
Sinking is my favorite word because it describes the action of it happening.
I like muck a lot too.
Quicksand.
Sinking in.
Buried.
Going down.
Ahhh sooo many!
Re: Favourite word associated with quicksand?
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2021 1:15 pm
by quickman
Not a word but a phrase
"I'm being sucked in!"
"It's sucking me in!"
phrases to that effect
Re: Favourite word associated with quicksand?
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:17 am
by RedLikeRubies
Definitely words like "squelch", "thick, "sticky" or "undulating" really get me going!
Re: Favourite word associated with quicksand?
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 1:31 am
by mudmaiden
How about phrases like:
“ It’s not solid-I can’t get out of this!”
or
“I can’t reach anything to pull myself out!”
Followed by:
“HELP!”
Re: Favourite word associated with quicksand?
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 3:07 am
by Fred588
How about, "I can't last much longer!" which is, I think, a direct quote from a character in quicksand in an an episode of Ramar of the Jungle. The episode was called "Thunder Over Sangoland."
Re: Favourite word associated with quicksand?
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:05 pm
by theartofmud
I have a pretty long list of words that I think sound good when used to describe quicksand or being trapped in it!
A few of my favorites are enveloping, oppressive, hungry, and sucking for what the quicksand is doing or feels like. Stuck, helpless, trapped, and imprisoned for a person's situation in the quicksand. Soft, sticky, gooey, heavy and thick are good words for the physical texture of it. For the quicksand itself muck, sludge, bog, mire and morass sound nice to me.