Usually means: Complex, illusory discovery of confusion.
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  1. mare's nest: Merriam-Webster
  2. mare's nest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mare's nest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mare's-nest, mare's-nest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mare's nest: Vocabulary.com
  6. mare's-nest: Wordnik
  7. mare's-nest, mare's nest: Wiktionary
  8. mare's-nest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. mare's-nest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mare's-nest: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Mare's-nest, mare's-nest, mare's nest, mares-nest, mares nest: Dictionary.com
  12. Mare's nest, The Mare's Nest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Mare's-nest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. mare's-nest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. mare's nest: Rhymezone
  16. Mare's-nest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. mares nest: FreeDictionary.org
  18. mare's nest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. mare's-nest, mare's nest, mares-nest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Mare’s nest: World Wide Words
  21. Mares Nest: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. mare's nest: Encyclopedia

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  1. mare's nest: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mare's nest)

▸ noun:  A great discovery which turns out to be illusory; especially, a hoax.
▸ noun:  A confused or complicated situation; a muddle.


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