MARSHY

boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged

(adjective) (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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

marshy (comparative marshier, superlative marshiest)

Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy.

Growing in marshy ground.

Synonyms

• (of, or resembling a marsh): hoggy, quaggy, swampy; see also marshy

Source: Wiktionary


Marsh"y, a. Etym: [E. Marsh.]

1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.

2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. Dryden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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