fenny
Meanings
Adj
- Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens.
- Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen.
- Muddy; hence, dirty, filthy.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English fenny, fenni (“marshy, muddy; of meat: putrid, rotten; of a person: sinful, vile”), from Old English fenniġ (“dirty; marshy, muddy, fenny”), from fen, fenn (“marsh, fen; mud”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“moist, wet; mud; swamp; water”)) + -iġ (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as fen + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).
Synonyms
boggish, boggy, fenlike, fennish, fenny, marish, marshy, miry, moorish, moory, morassy, paludal, paludine, paludinous, palustral, palustrine, palustrous, poachy, quaggy, queachy, sloughy, slumpy, spewy, swaly, swampish, swampy, syrtic, uliginous, wiery
Scrabble Score: 11
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