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Fenny

//ˈfɛni// adj, name, noun, slang

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Adjective

1
Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens.
"[I]nnumerable popingayes of ſundry kindes are found chattering in the groues of thoſe fenny places."
2
Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen.
"A fenny gooſe, even as her fleſhe is blacker, ſtoorer, unholſomer, ſo is her feather, for the ſame cauſe, courſer, ſtoorer, and rougher, and therefore I have heard very good fletchers ſay, that the ſecond fether in ſome place is better than the pinion in other ſome."
3
Muddy; hence, dirty, filthy. also, figuratively, obsolete
"Lord vvhat a nothing is this little Span, / VVe call a Man! / VVhat fenny traſh maintaines the ſmooth'ring fires / Of his desires!"

Proper Noun

1
A female given name, short for Fenella.

Noun

1
Alternative form of fennie (“fenestration”). alt-of, alternative, colloquial

Etymology

From Middle English fenny, fenni (“marshy, muddy; of meat: putrid, rotten; of a person: sinful, vile”), from Old English fenniġ (“dirty; marshy, muddy, fenny”), from fen, fenn (“marsh, fen; mud”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“moist, wet; mud; swamp; water”)) + -iġ (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as fen + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).

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