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fenny^¹

/ˈfɛni/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ɛni

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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).

adjective more fenny · most fenny

Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens. [I]nnumerable popingayes of ſundry kindes are found chattering in the groues of thoſe fenny places.
Similar: boggy, fenlike, fennish, quaggy, uliginous, boggish, fenny, marish, marshy, miry, moorish, moory
Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen. 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.
also, figuratively, obsolete Muddy; hence, dirty, filthy. Lord vvhat a nothing is this little Span, / VVe call a Man! / VVhat fenny traſh maintaines the ſmooth'ring fires / Of his desires!

fenny^²

/ˈfɛni/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ɛni

noun fennies

alternative, colloquial Alternative form of fennie (“fenestration”).

Fenny^³

proper noun

A female given name, short for Fenella.

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adj characteristic of or resembling a fen; of land: containing a fen or fens — see also marshy, swampy

Deutsch	moorig
Русский	боло́тистый bolótistyj, боло́тный bolótnyj, то́пкий tópkij

adj growing or living in a fen

Deutsch	Moor-

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@misc{fenny_2026,
  title = {fenny},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fenny},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}