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Synonyms for fenny


Grammar : Adj
Spell : fen-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɛn i



Définition of fenny

  • As in marshy : adj swampy
Example sentences :
  • For purchasing and improving the fenny lands in Lincolnshire.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions » by Charles Mackay
  • Finsbury was so called from the fenny district in which it lay.
  • Extract from : « Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles » by Daniel Hack Tuke
  • Fenchurch-street, from a fenny or moorish ground by a river side.
  • Extract from : « Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3) » by Isaac Disraeli
  • But, of all other, the fenny and marsh is the worst, and the clearest spring water next unto it.
  • Extract from : « Elizabethan England » by William Harrison
  • Reeds make a strong thatch, but are not easily to be procured, except in fenny districts.
  • Extract from : « Rustic Carpentry » by Paul N. Hasluck
  • The few dull flowers that o'er the place are spreadPartake the nature of their fenny bed.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Wildflower » by Henry S. Salt
  • The rain and thaw, following upon frosty weather, had converted the fenny country in many directions into a shallow lake.
  • Extract from : « History of the United Netherlands, 1590-1599, Vol. III. Complete » by John Lothrop Motley
  • I am very bad with the ague, as people must be in the habit of saying in these fenny districts.
  • Extract from : « Miss Eden's Letters » by Emily Eden
  • The tapir of Guatemala rolled by his fenny pool, and the peccary herded hard by.
  • Extract from : « The Infidel, Vol. II. » by Robert Montgomery Bird
  • I made similar inquiries at Fenny Stratford, and again at Dunstable, still without result.
  • Extract from : « The Motor Pirate » by George Sidney Paternoster

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