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fenny

[ fen-ee ]

adjective

  1. inhabiting or growing in fens.


ˈfenny

/ ˈfɛnɪ /

adjective

  1. boggy or marshy

    fenny country

  2. found in, characteristic of, or growing in fens


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fenny1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English fennig. See fen 1, -y 1

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Example Sentences

But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits.

Stamford, and the tongue of Lincoln's fenny shire, upon which it is situated, were passed almost in a breath.

Now called Fenny Drayton; a little hamlet about five miles from Nuneaton, in a flat, though beautiful farming country.

So far it has escaped detection in its fenny home, but it has been reared from eggs laid by a captured female.

He sung of the loose and fenny soil which gradually acquired firmness and density.

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