fenny
Americanadjective
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boggy or marshy
fenny country
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found in, characteristic of, or growing in fens
Etymology
Origin of fenny
before 1000; Middle English; Old English fennig. See fen 1, -y 1
Example Sentences
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“The fenny has dried up,” Mr. Kenwood said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2018
You shall drink wine poured into the vessel in the second consulship of Taurus, produced between the fenny Minturnae and Petrinum of Sinuessa.
From The Works of Horace by Horace
The country round about was very fenny, and encumbered with great and high trees.
From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]
BOURNE, or Bourn, a market town in the S. Kesteven or Stamford parliamentary division of Lincolnshire, England; lying in a fenny district 95 m.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
Fillet of fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bakae: Eye of newt, and toe of frog;— For a charm, &c.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
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