"swampy" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: swampier [comparative], swampiest [superlative]
Etymology: From swamp + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian sumpich (“swampy”), Dutch sompig, zompig (“swampy, soggy”), German sumpfig (“swampy”), Swedish sumpig (“swampy”). Etymology templates: {{suf|en|swamp|y|id2=adjectival}} swamp + -y, {{cog|stq|sumpich|t=swampy}} Saterland Frisian sumpich (“swampy”), {{cog|nl|sompig}} Dutch sompig, {{m|nl|zompig|t=swampy, soggy}} zompig (“swampy, soggy”), {{cog|de|sumpfig|t=swampy}} German sumpfig (“swampy”), {{cog|sv|sumpig|t=swampy}} Swedish sumpig (“swampy”) Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} swampy (comparative swampier, superlative swampiest)
  1. Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp. Translations (wet like a swamp): мочурлив (močurliv) (Bulgarian), блатист (blatist) (Bulgarian), pantanós (Catalan), marĉa (Esperanto), soinen (Finnish), brañento (Galician), sumpfig (German), mocsaras (Hungarian), ingoványos (Hungarian), marshoza (Ido), marshatra (Ido), palūdester (Latin), palūdōsus (Latin), paluster (Latin), staigns (Latvian), purvains (Latvian), muklains (Latvian), mukls (Latvian), bagnity (Lower Sorbian), tymjeńcowaty (Lower Sorbian), tonišćaty (Lower Sorbian), tonišćowaty (Lower Sorbian), tonjaty (Lower Sorbian), kōreporepo (Maori), bagnisty (Polish), błotnisty (Polish), bagienny (Polish), błotny (Polish), pantanoso (Portuguese), боло́тистый (bolótistyj) (Russian), močvaran (Serbo-Croatian), močvarni (Serbo-Croatian), močviren (Slovene), pantanoso (Spanish), cenagoso (Spanish), chepechepe (Swahili), malate (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-swampy-en-adj-xGOvKOBq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 53 47 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 53 47 Disambiguation of 'wet like a swamp': 99 1
  2. Flowing smoothly with no harsh tones but possibly including muddy tones.
    Sense id: en-swampy-en-adj-UltsDBPH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 53 47 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (adjectival): 53 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): Sound Related terms: marshy
Disambiguation of Sound: 0 0 Categories (other): English_2-syllable_words Disambiguation of English_2-syllable_words: 0 0

Inflected forms

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      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "wet like a swamp",
      "word": "tonišćowaty"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "wet like a swamp",
      "word": "tonjaty"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "wet like a swamp",
      "word": "pantanoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "wet like a swamp",
      "word": "cenagoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "wet like a swamp",
      "word": "chepechepe"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "wet like a swamp",
      "word": "malate"
    }
  ],
  "word": "swampy"
}

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