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Definition of Fenny
1. a. Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy.
Definition of Fenny
1. Adjective. Characteristic of a fen; marshy, swampy. ¹
2. Adjective. Living or growing in a fen (now only of plants). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fenny
1. marshy [adj FENNIER, FENNIEST] - See also: marshy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fenny
Literary usage of Fenny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"Water Hall, near fenny Stratford, was the chief seat of Reginald de Grey, who
died in 1307. His son, John Lord Grey de Wilton, died in 1323, and was seized ..."
2. Palladius On husbondrie by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1879)
"The fenny feeld it is not forto plowe, Lest all the yere it after be to tough 24
To plowe, ... fenny land not to be ploughed up. Nothing will grow for three ..."
3. The Journey from Chester to London by Thomas Pennant (1811)
"... into the great road at fenny fenny Stratford, so called from its situation.
The chapel, which is in the parish of ..."
4. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"Near the little white lighthouse on Robbins's Reef, the verdurous shore turns to
the southwestward, and forms, with a fenny strip of the Jersey shore on the ..."
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