Fenny, dirty, marshy, miry.

Of the nature of, or characterized by, fen; boggy, swampy.

Marshy; spec. designating or consisting of a kind of soft, dark, peaty soil found in fenland and marshland; esp. in moory earth, moory land.

Relating to or of the nature of a marsh; consisting of or containing marshes or marshland.

Marshy.

Of ground, etc.: boggy, marshy. Also figurative. Now rare.

Of ground: swampy, boggy; unstable. Also in extended use. Cf. queasy, adj. 6. Chiefly English regional and U.S. regional in later use.

In predicative use: of the nature of a marsh. Obsolete.

Abounding in or characterized by shallow pools or puddles; marshy, swampy, boggy; (hence also) wet, slimy.

Boggy, marshy, miry; waterlogged. Obsolete.

Resembling a fen, marshy.

(un-, prefix1 affix 2.)

= fenny, adj. 1.

Of the nature of, or characterized by, bog; swampy.

= paludal, adj.

Of land: Unproductive, marshy, poor.

= marshy, adj. 1 2.

Of land: Wet, marshy, boggy.

Of places: Soaked with water or moisture; water-logged, plashy, swampy.

of the nature of a quagmire; boggy; also figurative.

= paludal, adj. 2.

Of boggy nature.

Of the nature of or resembling a pool. Also: having many pools; swampy.

Of the nature of a swamp; abounding in swamps; marshy, boggy.

Given to spouting or discharging water; spec. (of land) poorly drained or waterlogged.

Of land: Boggy (see quot. 1790). Obsolete.

Having many ponds; marshy, swampy.

Of, relating to, or found in a morass; having the characteristics of a morass; consisting of wet spongy ground.

Of ground, etc.: Very wet and splashy; covered with water or thin mud.

Boggy, miry, swampy.

Of land: Soaked with water or moisture; boggy, swampy, marshy.

= swampy, adj.

Full of shallow pools or puddles; wet and soft.

Of ground, etc.: Soft with, full of, water; soaking, marshy.

Of ground: broken, rough, uneven, boggy; esp. (of peat moorland) cut or eroded into patches of soft bog, drainage gulleys, and areas or outcrops of…

(See quots.)

Marshy, swampy, muddy, boggy.

Muddy, boggy, swampy.

= paludal, adj.

= paludal, adj.

Originally: of or relating to a snail of the type represented by the genus Paludina (see Paludina, n.). In later use: = paludal, adj. 2.

= paludal, adj.

= paludal, adj. Also figurative.

More generally: of or relating to a marsh or fen, marshy; (of a plant) growing in marshy ground, requiring a marshy habitat.

= paludal, adj.

= morassy, adj.

Consisting of muskegs or swamps.