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swampy, a.|ˈswɒmpɪ|
[f. swamp n. + -y.]
Of the nature of a swamp; abounding in swamps; marshy, boggy.
1697W. Dampier Voy. I. ii. 20 We crossed a deep River..and marched 7 mile in a low swampy ground. 1716B. Church Hist. Philip's War (1865) I. 102 He..took into the Woods and Swampy thickets. 1791R. Mylne 2nd Rep. Thames 12 The Towing Path is interrupted by a low, swampy Eyot. 1839Darwin Voy. Nat. x. (1852) 209 The ground is covered by a thick bed of swampy peat. 1874Green Short Hist. iii. §4. 128 The town was guarded by the swampy meadows along Cherwell. 1877Huxley Physiogr. 145 In many deltas, the alluvial land is swampy.
fig.1875McLaren Serm. Ser. ii. vii. 126 The swampy corruption that fills your life.
b. Of or pertaining to a swamp; found in swamps, as swampy iron ore = bog iron ore (bog n.1 4); proceeding from a swamp.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 183 Swampy Iron ore. Sumpferz of Werner. 1798Malthus Popul. (1817) I. 214 Swampy exhalations.
Hence ˈswampily adv., ˈswampiness.
1753Richardson Grandison (1766) V. 55 A little swampiness of soil. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 501 The swampiness of the ground was completely removed. 1890Blackw. Mag. July 57/2 A short cut..has to be circuitously and swampily repented of. |