marshy

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  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”Synonyms: boggymirymuckymuddyquaggysloppysloughysoggysquashyswampywaterlogged
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

marshy \marsh"y\ (m[aum]rsh"[y^]), a. [E. Marsh.] [1913 Webster]

1.Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny. [1913 Webster]

2.Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

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