marshy en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈmɑɹʃi/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English mersshy, mershi, equivalent to marsh + -y.
Meanings
-
Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy.
West of Keswick a short descent at 1 in 122 brings the train down to the low-lying and marshy ground between Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lake and to the crossing of the Derwent - the outfall from Derwentwater, [...].
1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:Nearer the coast, the land becomes markedly more marshy, with long, winding channels striking inland from the sea, making access to some of the waterside villages rather difficult.
1950 December, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 838:Engineers chose a site for the 480-hectare plant on marshy ground at Hsiaokang, a small township near the southern seaport of Kaohsiung.
1982 December 5, “China Steel lives up to promise”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIII, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:the marshy nature of the ground
- Growing in marshy ground.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| marshier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| marshiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
Hypernyms
Relateds
squelchy · mucky · muddy · fetid · squishy · wetland · dank
Synonyms
swampy · queachy · quaggy · sloughy · fenny · palustrous · wiery · swaly · quaggy · uliginous · boggy · spewy · hoggy · fennish · moory · paludinous · moorish · marish · paludal · miry · poachy · palustral · paludine · swampish · boggish · marshy · palustrine · swampy · slumpy · morassy · syrtic
Translations (41)
fr marécageux (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · de morastig (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · es cenagoso (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · vec aquitrinoso (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · de moorig (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · mi pōwharuwharu (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · la palūdester (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · gl brañento (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · de moosig (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · fi soinen (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · hu mocsaras (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · enm mersshy (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · ru боло́тистый (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · kix tǖphīakphīak (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · pl błotny (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · ru боло́тный (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · lv muklains (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · pt pantanoso (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · hu lápos (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · mi kōreporepo (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · de versumpft (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · la paluster (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · bg мочурлив (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · ru боло́тный (growing in marshy ground) · mi reporepo (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · pl błotny (growing in marshy ground) · bg блатист (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · hu posványos (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · la palūdōsus (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · es pantanoso (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · lv purvains (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · eo marĉa (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · lv staigns (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · lv mukls (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · ru то́пкий (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · io marshoza (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · io marshatra (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · ota باتاق (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · hu mocsári (growing in marshy ground) · de sumpfig (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy) · hu ingoványos (of, or resembling a marsh; boggy)