fever swampn.

Brit.

/ˈfiːvə ˌswɒmp/, U.S.

/ˈfivər ˌswɑmp/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fever n.¹, fever n.¹

Etymology: < fever n.¹ + swamp n.

1. Any swamp regarded as the source of an infectious fever or as a breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes. Cf. swamp fever n. at swamp n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1844 G. C. Hebbe & J. MacKay tr. ‘C. Sealsfield’ Life in New World i. ii. 16/2 I would willingly have given this tough rascal information.., on condition that he would deliver us from this execrable fever-swamp.

1871 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 433 A foul fever-swamp it was—poisonous water held in by stiff clay.

1903 A. Morrison Red Triangle iv. iv. 195 We hid..among the rank weeds—up to our shoulders in the water of a pestilential fever-swamp.

1955 C. B. Clason Ark of Venus 14 We've..drained the fever swamps of Africa and converted the jungles of Panasia and Pacifica into rice farms.

2008 M. Lecard Tiny Little Troubles xxv. 176 The southern coast of Kalimaha was taken up by fever swamps.

2. figurative. A portion of the media, a political party, etc., in which political extremism originates or flourishes.

ΚΠ

1957 National Rev. 25 May 488/2 Alger Hiss' sally has been beaten back and his forces are licking their wounds in the fever-swamps of the left-wing press.

1981 Hearing before Comm. Foreign Affairs (U.S. House of Representatives, 97th Congr., 1st Sess.) 41 Each one of our great parties and each one of the major ideologies within those parties has its fever swamps.

2015 N.Y. Mag. 15 June 16/3 In the 1990s, Ailes was a member of the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’, gleefully sloshing around in the conservative fever swamps.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fever swamp
释义	fever swampn. Brit. /ˈfiːvə ˌswɒmp/, U.S. /ˈfivər ˌswɑmp/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fever n.¹, fever n.¹ Etymology: < fever n.¹ + swamp n. 1. Any swamp regarded as the source of an infectious fever or as a breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes. Cf. swamp fever n. at swamp n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1844 G. C. Hebbe & J. MacKay tr. ‘C. Sealsfield’ Life in New World i. ii. 16/2 I would willingly have given this tough rascal information.., on condition that he would deliver us from this execrable fever-swamp. 1871 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 433 A foul fever-swamp it was—poisonous water held in by stiff clay. 1903 A. Morrison Red Triangle iv. iv. 195 We hid..among the rank weeds—up to our shoulders in the water of a pestilential fever-swamp. 1955 C. B. Clason Ark of Venus 14 We've..drained the fever swamps of Africa and converted the jungles of Panasia and Pacifica into rice farms. 2008 M. Lecard Tiny Little Troubles xxv. 176 The southern coast of Kalimaha was taken up by fever swamps. 2. figurative. A portion of the media, a political party, etc., in which political extremism originates or flourishes. ΚΠ 1957 National Rev. 25 May 488/2 Alger Hiss' sally has been beaten back and his forces are licking their wounds in the fever-swamps of the left-wing press. 1981 Hearing before Comm. Foreign Affairs (U.S. House of Representatives, 97th Congr., 1st Sess.) 41 Each one of our great parties and each one of the major ideologies within those parties has its fever swamps. 2015 N.Y. Mag. 15 June 16/3 In the 1990s, Ailes was a member of the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’, gleefully sloshing around in the conservative fever swamps. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1844
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