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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈfɛni/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fenny.wav Forms: more fenny [comparative], most fenny [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛni 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). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pen-|*-kos}}, {{inh|en|enm|fenny}} Middle English fenny, {{inh|en|ang|fenniġ|t=dirty; marshy, muddy, fenny}} Old English fenniġ (“dirty; marshy, muddy, fenny”), {{inh|en|ine-pro|*pen-|t=moist, wet; mud; swamp; water}} Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“moist, wet; mud; swamp; water”), {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{glossary|adjective}} adjective, {{suffix|en|fen|y|id2=adjectival|pos2=suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives}} fen + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives) Head templates: {{en-adj}} fenny (comparative more fenny, superlative most fenny)
  1. Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens. Synonyms: boggy, fenlike, fennish, quaggy, uliginous, marshy Translations (characteristic of or resembling a fen; of land: containing a fen or fens — see also marshy, swampy): блатист (blatist) (Bulgarian), мочурлив (močurliv) (Bulgarian), lettoinen (Finnish), moorig (english: more broadly) (German), riascánta (Irish), palūdōsus (Latin), мо́чурлив (móčurliv) (Macedonian), мочу́риштен (močúrišten) (Macedonian), fenni (Middle English), fenny (Middle English), fenlīċ (Old English), fenniġ (Old English)
    Sense id: en-fenny-en-adj-LJN8D1EV Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 41 45 14 Disambiguation of 'characteristic of or resembling a fen; of land: containing a fen or fens — see also marshy, swampy': 73 22 5
  2. Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen. Translations (growing or living in a fen): letto- (Finnish), Moor- (english: more broadly) (German)
    Sense id: en-fenny-en-adj-QHBpUvRH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival), Entries with translation boxes, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English terms suffixed with -y, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Middle English translations, Terms with Old English translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 57 8 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 29 45 26 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 41 45 14 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 30 50 13 3 4 Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -y: 23 38 29 2 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 27 55 12 2 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 59 7 1 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 35 47 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 37 46 18 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 32 49 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 34 47 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 32 53 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 34 48 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Middle English translations: 26 45 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Old English translations: 31 49 19 Disambiguation of 'growing or living in a fen': 29 67 4
  3. (obsolete, also figurative) Muddy; hence, dirty, filthy. Tags: also, figuratively, obsolete
    Sense id: en-fenny-en-adj-W6UgUpjv Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 41 45 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Fenny Bridges, Fenny Compton, Fenny Stratford, Sutton Veny (english: probably)

Adjective [Middle English]

IPA: /ˈfɛniː/ Forms: fennye [plural], fennye [singular, weak]
Etymology: From Old English fenniġ; equivalent to fen + -y. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|fenniġ}} Old English fenniġ, {{af|enm|fen|-y}} fen + -y Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective|plural and weak singular|fennye||{{{2}}}||{{{3}}}|head=}} fenny (plural and weak singular fennye), {{enm-adj|fennye}} fenny (plural and weak singular fennye)
  1. fenny, marshy; like a fen Categories (place): Landforms
    Sense id: en-fenny-enm-adj-cYhQz4yn Disambiguation of Landforms: 86 14
  2. (rare) rotten, tainted, sinful Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-fenny-enm-adj-mT6xcnWd
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fenni

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1624, Richard Grenville, “A Briefe Relation Written by Captaine Smith to His Maiesties Commissioners for the Reformation of Virginia, Concerning Some Aspersions against It”, in Iohn Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, book 4; reprinted in The Generall Historie of Virginia, … (Bibliotheca Americana), Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, 1966, →OCLC, page 162:",
          "text": "[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: […]",
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          "text": "Elephant. Elephantus. […] Their differences are according to place; ſo ſome live in fenny places, ſome on mountaines, ſome in fields, others in vvoods, &c.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1608, Edward Topsell, “Of the Dragon”, in The Historie of Serpents. Or, The Second Booke of Liuing Creatures: […], London: […] William Jaggard, →OCLC, page 158:",
          "text": "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: […]",
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          "text": "Godvvit. […] they are a fenny fovvl, and live of VVorms, about River banks: […]",
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          "text": "The hungry Crocodile, and hiſſing Snake / Lurk in the troubl'd Stream and fenny Brake: […]",
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          "ref": "1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 7, lines 79–81:",
          "text": "Paths there were many, / Winding through palmy fern, and rushes fenny, / And ivy banks; […]",
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          "text": "Lord vvhat a nothing is this little Span, / VVe call a Man! / VVhat fenny traſh maintaines the ſmooth'ring fires / Of his desires!",
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          "ref": "1624, Richard Grenville, “A Briefe Relation Written by Captaine Smith to His Maiesties Commissioners for the Reformation of Virginia, Concerning Some Aspersions against It”, in Iohn Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, book 4; reprinted in The Generall Historie of Virginia, … (Bibliotheca Americana), Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, 1966, →OCLC, page 162:",
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          "text": "Elephant. Elephantus. […] Their differences are according to place; ſo ſome live in fenny places, ſome on mountaines, ſome in fields, others in vvoods, &c.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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: […]",
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          "text": "Godvvit. […] they are a fenny fovvl, and live of VVorms, about River banks: […]",
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          "text": "The hungry Crocodile, and hiſſing Snake / Lurk in the troubl'd Stream and fenny Brake: […]",
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          "ref": "1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 7, lines 79–81:",
          "text": "Paths there were many, / Winding through palmy fern, and rushes fenny, / And ivy banks; […]",
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          "ref": "1635, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Canto XIV. Pro[verbs] XXIV. XVI.”, in Emblemes, London: […] G[eorge] M[iller] and sold at at Iohn Marriots shope […], →OCLC, book II, stanza 4, page 118:",
          "text": "Lord vvhat a nothing is this little Span, / VVe call a Man! / VVhat fenny traſh maintaines the ſmooth'ring fires / Of his desires!",
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