fenny

Betekenis (Engels)

1. Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens.
2. Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen.
3. (obsolete) Muddy; hence, dirty, filthy.

Concepten

moerassig

doorweekt

modderig

drassig

Synoniemen

swampy

marshy

malarious

miry

muddy

paludal

puddly

quaggy

squishy

plashy

uliginous

boggish

hoggy

boggy

lutulent

malarial

Met koppelteken als

fen‧ny

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈfɛni/

Etymologie (Engels)

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).