marshy

3 definitions found

marshy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  marshy \marsh"y\ (m[aum]rsh"[y^]), a. [E. Marsh.]
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     1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.
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     2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed.
        --Dryden.
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marshy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  marshy
      adj 1: (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under
             foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky
             lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the
             sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy,
             marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy,
             sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged]

marshy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "marshy":
     boggish, boggy, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, fenny, humid, marish,
     mirish, miry, moist, moorish, moory, muddy, muggy, paludal,
     paludous, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, rainy, roric, roriferous,
     spouty, sticky, swampish, swampy, tacky, uliginous, undried, wet,
     wettish