fenny - Glite Dictionary

Examples

"Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake!"

The Dressmaker (2015)
Fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and bake.

Macbeth (1971)
They found them—the very words—and they became his charm and code, his mojo, sweet-bone totem, the rib and thorn in their fenny winter bed.

Fiction book (1990)
The children played in the fenny area, splashing through the shallow waters of the marsh.
During our hike, we discovered a beautiful fenny landscape filled with unique plants and wildlife.
The fenny terrain made it difficult to traverse, as the ground was soft and soaked from the rain.

fen

vsfenny

2 8.5

A low, wet area of land with grass that often lies between land and water

is the archaic or dialect word for that same landscape

fenland

vsfenny

8.2

A low, wet area with tall grasses and standing water

is the archaic or dialect name rather than the modern geographic term

bogland

vsfenny

6.1

Wet, spongy land with moss and peat where plants and animals live

is an older or dialect label for marshy land without peat focus

fenny aroma

9.9

A sweet, earthy smell like wet marsh plants

swamp

226 1.9

bog

33 4.9

marsh

64 2.6

fenny

1 9.9

meadow

85 1.0

fenny singular

fennies plural

fenny = fen (transparent) = fen + y

Dialects/archaic noun formed directly from 'fen' with '-y'; the meaning 'a fen' is directly recoverable from the base.

As a noun, fenny comes from the old English fen, meaning 'marsh' or 'bog'. So a fenny is simply a stretch of wet, boggy land.