swampyadj.
/ˈswɒmpi/, U.S. /ˈswɑmpi/ 1.
a. Of the nature of a swamp; abounding in swamps; marshy, boggy.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective]
fen-lichc1000
fennyc1000
mooryOE
marshya1382
marshlyc1410
moorisha1492
queachy?a1500
marish1549
plashya1552
foggy?1555
fen-like1561
undrained1573
fennish1577
boggy1587
paludious1595
wealy1601
marishy1607
snapy1607
uliginous1610
quagmiry1623
paludiate1632
boggish1633
pooly1652
swampy1661
spouty1677
gouty1686
pondy1687
morassy1699
sloppy1699
lairy17..
soggya1722
swampish1725
splashy1727
squashy1751
haggy1765
gaulty1784
slumpy1823
sumpy1824
paludine1852
paludic1854
paludinal1856
paludian1860
paludinous1866
paludal1871
paludial1875
morassic1893
muskeggy1894
swamped1899
1661 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1892) I. 82 This said Land lieing all in one percell,..ffoure acres of this Land being meaddow, or low Swampie Land in the Lue of meaddow Lieing at the West End thereof.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World ii. 20 We crossed a deep River..and marched 7 mile in a low swampy ground.
1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 31 He..took into the Woods and Swampy thickets.
1791 R. Mylne 2nd Rep. Navigation Thames 12 The Towing Path is interrupted by a low, swampy Eyot.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xi. 231 The surface was covered by a thick bed of swampy peat.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §4. 128 The town was guarded by the swampy meadows along Cherwell.
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 145 In many deltas, the alluvial land is swampy.
b. figurative.
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1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. vii. 126 The swampy corruption that fills your life.
2. Of or relating to a swamp; found in swamps; proceeding from a swamp.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > found in or produced by
fenny1543
marish1543
fennish1574
marshland1574
marshy1595
marishy1607
fenny-seated1631
palustrian1787
paludous1803
swampy1803
palustrine1824
paludicolous1857
paludose1866
web-footed1867
paludicole1872
palustral1879
paludicoline1890
ombrotrophic1962
1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. viii. 107 Swampy exhalations.
Compounds
swampy iron ore n. bog iron ore (bog n.1 Compounds 4).
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > iron ore > bog
bog-mine1590
bog-mine-ore1764
bog ore1772
bog iron ore1789
swampy iron ore1796
morassy iron ore1801
morass ore1805
black ram1808
limonite1823
swamp-ore1839
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 183 Swampy Iron ore. Sumpferz of Werner.
Derivatives
ˈswampily adv.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adverb]
moorishly1622
swampily1890
1890 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 57/2 A short cut..has to be circuitously and swampily repented of.
ˈswampiness n.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > marshy quality
moorishness1598
bogginess1649
marishness1652
quagginess1653
ooziness1684
marshiness1710
sloppiness1727
swampiness1753
spoutiness1757
swash1864
swampishness1879
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. x. 55 A little swampiness of soil.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 501 The swampiness of the ground was completely removed.
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