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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  marshy \marsh"y\ (m[aum]rsh"[y^]), a. [E. {Marsh}.]
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     1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.
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     2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed.


        --Dryden.
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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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