fenny

[fen-ee]

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adjective

marshy.
inhabiting or growing in fens.

Origin of fenny

before 1000; Middle English; Old English fennig. See fen¹, -y¹

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Related Words for fenny

soggy, miry, mucky, quaggy, boggy, fenny, paludal

Examples from the Web for fenny

Historical Examples of fenny

For purchasing and improving the fenny lands in Lincolnshire.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay
Finsbury was so called from the fenny district in which it lay.
Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles
Daniel Hack Tuke
Fenchurch-street, from a fenny or moorish ground by a river side.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3)
Isaac Disraeli
But, of all other, the fenny and marsh is the worst, and the clearest spring water next unto it.
Elizabethan England
William Harrison
Reeds make a strong thatch, but are not easily to be procured, except in fenny districts.
Rustic Carpentry
Paul N. Hasluck

British Dictionary definitions for fenny

fenny

adjective

boggy or marshyfenny country
found in, characteristic of, or growing in fens

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