Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Marshy; fenny.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Marshy; fenny.
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- adjective
marshy ;fenny
Etymologies
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Examples
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And stay offa my wetlands, snake-infested ankle-deep morassy-swamp lawn!!!
Gator Update (Free Bill Warner! Edition) Bill Crider 2007
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I have frequently been carried for miles in a hammock by four natives and relays, through morassy districts too dangerous to travel on horseback.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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To go there we would have had to pass through woods and over small morassy creeks.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898
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Perhaps a penguin-ish life would be truer of it than a piggish, the _nest_ of it being indeed on the rock, or morassy rock-investiture, like a sea-bird's on her rock ledge.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Though we were very desirous, and our necessities required that we should take some survey of the land we were upon, yet being strongly prepossessed that the savages were retired but some little distance from us, and waited to see us divided, our parties did not make this day any great excursions from the hut; but as far as we went, we found it very morassy and unpromising.
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