Fenny
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈfɛni/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Fenny is an adjective meaning Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen.
Meaning
Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen.
More Meanings
- (horticulture, colloquial) Alternative form of fennie (“fenestration”).
- Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens.
- (obsolete, also figurative) Muddy; hence, dirty, filthy.
Example Sentences
Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake: […]
Godvvit. […] they are a fenny fovvl, and live of VVorms, about River banks: […]
[I]nnumerable popingayes of ſundry kindes are found chattering in the groues of thoſe fenny places.
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.
Word Forms
- fennies
Synonyms for fenny
Depending on context, synonyms include boggy, fenlike, fennish, quaggy, uliginous, marish.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fennish, fossed, fucoid, felty, faeculent, foetid.
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