fenny
Adj
- Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens.
- Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen.
- Muddy; hence, dirty, filthy.
Adjective
- Resembling or full of fens; marshy or boggy.
Examples
- His opponent’s board position became quite FENNY, difficult to navigate for high scores.
Origin / Etymology
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).
Synonyms
boggish, boggy, fenlike, fennish, fenny, marish, marshy, miry, moorish, moory, morassy, paludal, paludine, paludinous, palustral, palustrine, palustrous, poachy, quaggy, queachy, sloughy, slumpy, spewy, swaly, swampish, swampy, syrtic, uliginous, wiery
Scrabble Score: 11
fenny: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfenny: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fenny: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary