marish

American  

[mar-ish] / ˈmær ɪʃ /

noun

1. a marsh.

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adjective

1. marshy.

marish British  

/ ˈmærɪʃ /

adjective

1. obsolete marshy; swampy

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Etymology

Origin of marish

1300–50; Middle English mareis < Middle French; marais

Example Sentences

I kept saying, “Marish. Marish. People do this all the time. This is not their first barbecue.”

From Los Angeles Times

Andrew Watson, 29, was warned three times in seven months by managers at the Marish Academy Trust in Slough, Berkshire, to keep proper professional boundaries, a panel heard.

From BBC

Mr Watson started work at the trust in February 2019 as a coach and unqualified teacher at the trust's Marish and Willow primary schools.

From BBC

The hobbits had heard just such a cry far away in the Marish as they fled from Hobbiton, and even there in the woods of the Shire it had frozen their blood.

From Literature

Indeed, the folk of the Marish, and of Buckland, east of the River, which they afterwards occupied, came for the most part later into the Shire up from south-away; and they still had many peculiar names and strange words not found elsewhere in the Shire.

From Literature