swamp
noun
a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
swampish
-
a word derived from
swamp.
Example Sentences
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Our island is not "swampish"; it is dry, in fact, too dry for its own good.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even with the gaslights dimmed and the hallway windows cranked open, a swampish heat encased us like mud.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
By the time the third and premier event of the day, the varsity race, approached, the sun had begun to set and a murky, swampish darkness was settling over the river.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
The Palace Hotel, then, was always screaming and howling in a way that made the dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska seem only a gray swampish hush.
From The Monster and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
There is a chilly vapor off him—a swampish miasma—that puts me in a snuffling state, beyond poultice and mustard footbaths.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
