fenny

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɛni/    美 /ˈfɛni/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of fennie (“fenestration”). alt-of,alternative,colloquial
形容词 adj.
  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!

词形变化

more fenny comparative most fenny superlative fennies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Fenny Bridges Fenny Compton Fenny Stratford Sutton Veny

词源

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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