| 释义 |
fennish, a.|ˈfɛnɪʃ|
[f. fen n.1 + -ish.]
1. = fenny a.1 1.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 24 The land it selfe is..called.. fennishe, where the water still continues. 1602W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. 54 To turne..fennish ground into firme ground. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 145 In Fennish and watery places. 1727in Bailey vol. II.
2. Belonging to or produced from a fen. Also of a bird: Inhabiting the fen.
1574Whitgift Def. Aunsw. iii. §30. 378 All the Fennishe waters in a whole Countrey. 1600Maides Metam. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. I. 120 Where fennish fogges and vapours do abound. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd. 4 Tit⁓mouse, great fennish. 1851College Life time Jas. I, 63 Symonds fell a victim to the fennish malaria.
3. Savouring of the fen; muddy.
1661J. Childrey Brit. Bacon 88 The Stews..were made to feed Pikes and Tenches fat, and to scour them from their muddy Fennish taste. |