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▪ I. fenny, a.1|ˈfɛnɪ|
[OE. fęnniᵹ, f. fęnn fen.]
1. Of the nature of, or characterized by, fen; boggy, swampy.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 147 Uliginosus ager, fenniᵹ æcer. c1420Pallad. on Husb. ii. 22 The fenny feeld it is not forto plowe. a1440Found. St. Bartholomew's 12 Right vncleene it was and as a maryce dunge and fenny with water. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 19 They are..engendered..in fennie & marrishe groundes. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iv. 162 Large Fenny vnwholsome Marshes. 1712Steele Spect. No. 406 ⁋4 They journey through the fenny Moors. 1805J. Luccock Nat. Wool 186 Almost the only animal of the kind known through the fenny district. 1858Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. vi. (1864) 192 Muddy rivers, with their fenny shores, tenanted by hideous alligators.
2. Inhabiting, growing, or produced in a fen. Now only of plants.
1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. ix. 42 He must abstaine also from maryshe fyshes and fennie, and drye..oystres. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 128 A fennye goose. 1587Harrison England ii. xxii. (1877) i. 343 Fennie bote, broome, turffe, [etc.]..will be good merchandize euen in the citie of London. 1605Shakes. Macb. iv. i. 12 Fillet of a Fenny Snake, In the Cauldron boyle and bake. 1607Topsell Serpents (1608) 705 Dragons..fenny, and living in the marishes. c1629Layton Synos Plea Ep. Ded., Fenny-Bitters in their hollowe canne make a terrible noyse. 1660Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 181 They are a fenny fowl. a1721Prior Solomon i. 324 In the troubl'd Stream and fenny Brake. 1818Keats Endym. i. 80 Winding through palmy fern, and rushes fenny. 1822Hood Lycus, Like a long silver rivulet under The long fenny grass.
†3. Muddy, dirty. Also fig. Obs.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xiii. 74 Gif sio [hond]..bið..fenneᵹu. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1113 Þaȝ þou be man fenny, & al to-marred in myre..Þou may schyne þurȝ schryfte. a1340Hampole Psalter lxxvii. 50 Vayn ianglynge þat is in fenny wittes. 1635Quarles Embl. ii. xiv. (1718) 118 What fenny trash maintains the smoth'ring fires Of his desires!
4. Comb., fenny-seated a., situated in a fen; † fenny-stones, a kind of Orchis.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 58 That famous fenny-seated Monastery. 1597Gerarde Herbal i. cv. 174 Of Fennie stones. 1678Phillips, Fenny-stones, a plant somewhat of the nature and kind of the Cynos Orchis or Dog⁓stones. 1721–1800Bailey, Fenny-stones.
▪ II. ˈfenny, a.2 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 1 fyniᵹ, 8 vinny.
[OE. fyniᵹ, f. fyne, fen n.2 mould. Cf. finew.]
Spoiled with damp, mouldy, musty.
c1000ælfric Josh. ix. 5 Finnie hlafas. 1573Tusser Husb. xxxv. (1878) 83 More fennie the laier the better his lust, more apt to beare hops when it crumbles like dust. 1674Ray S. & E.C. Words 65 Fenny cheese, mouldy cheese, Kent. 1736Lewis Thanet Gloss., Fenny, rotten, mouldy cheese ‘vinny cheese’. c1860Kentish dial., ‘This bread is fenny ma'am, all through lying in that damp place.’ |