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/ˈfɛni/ · adjective
Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens..
[I]nnumerable popingayes of ſundry kindes are found chattering in the groues of thoſe fenny places.
[F]or ſo many faire and Nauigable Riuers ſo neere adioyning, and piercing thorovv ſo faire a naturall Land, free from any inundations, or large Fenny vnvvholſome Marſhes, I haue not ſeene, read, nor heard of: […]
Elephant. Elephantus. […] Their differences are according to place; ſo ſome live in fenny places, ſome on mountaines, ſome in fields, others in vvoods, &c.
It is a custom with the northern lovers to divert themselves with a song whilst they journey through the fenny moors to pay a visit to their mistresses.
A fenny gooſe, even as her fleſhe is blacker, ſtoorer, unholſomer, ſo is her feather, for the ſame cauſe, courſer, ſtoorer, and rougher, and therefore I have heard very good fletchers ſay, that the ſecond fether in ſome place is better than the pinion in other ſome.
Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake: […]
Of the Indian Dragons there are alſo ſaid to be tvvo kindes, one of them fenny, and liuing in the Marſhes, vvhich are ſlovv of pace and vvithout combes on their heades like females: […]
Godvvit. […] they are a fenny fovvl, and live of VVorms, about River banks: […]
Use fenny when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fenny means Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens..
Common synonyms include boggy, fenlike, fennish, quaggy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[I]nnumerable popingayes of ſundry kindes are found chattering in the groues of thoſe fenny places.
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