3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: marshy adj : (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" [syn: {boggy}, {miry}, {mucky}, {muddy}, {quaggy}, {sloughy}, {swampy}] [also: {marshiest}, {marshier}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 33 Moby Thesaurus words for "marshy": boggish, boggy, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, fenny, humid, marish, mirish, miry, moist, moorish, moory, muddy, muggy, paludal, paludous, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, rainy, roric, roriferous, spouty, sticky, swampish, swampy, tacky, uliginous, undried, wet, wettish
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