fenny

From Middle English fenny, from Old English fenniġ; equivalent to fen +‎ -y.

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛni/

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• Rhymes: -ɛni

fenny (comparative more fenny, superlative most fenny)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fen; marshy, swampy.
2. (now only of plants) Living or growing in a fen.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:

     Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake:

• (characteristic of a fen): fennish, quaggy, uliginous; see also Thesaurus:marshy

• Fenny Compton
• Fenny Stratford

• “fenny”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• fynne

• fenni

From Old English fenniġ; equivalent to fen +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛniː/

fenny (plural and weak singular fennye)

1. fenny, marshy; like a fen
2. (rare) rotten, tainted, sinful

• English: fenny
• Yola: venie

• “fennī, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.