- swampy
- adjective (swampier; -est) Date: 1649 consisting of, suggestive of, or resembling swamp ; marshy • swampiness noun
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Swampy — Swamp y, a. Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
swampy — [swäm′pē, swôm′pē] adj. swampier, swampiest 1. of or consisting of a swamp or swamps 2. like a swamp; wet and spongy; marshy swampiness n … English World dictionary
Swampy — This article is about the environmental protester. For the language, see Swampy Cree. For the sportsman with this nickname, see Anthony Hamilton (snooker player). Daniel Hooper (known as Swampy, born 1973) is an environmental activist, sometimes… … Wikipedia
swampy — adj. Swampy is used with these nouns: ↑terrain … Collocations dictionary
swampy — [[t]swɒ̱mpi[/t]] swampier, swampiest ADJ GRADED A swampy area of land is always very wet … English dictionary
swampy — adjective the swampy acreage behind the orchard Syn: marshy, boggy, fenny, miry; soft, soggy, muddy, spongy, heavy, squelchy, waterlogged, sodden, wet; archaic quaggy … Thesaurus of popular words
swampy — swamp ► NOUN ▪ a bog or marsh. ► VERB 1) overwhelm or flood with water. 2) overwhelm with too much of something; inundate. DERIVATIVES swampy adjective. ORIGIN probably ultimately from a Germanic base meaning sponge or fungus … English terms dictionary
swampy — adjective (of soil) soft and watery the ground was boggy under foot a marshy coastline miry roads wet mucky lowland muddy barnyard quaggy terrain the sloughy edge of the pond swa … Useful english dictionary
Swampy Cree language — Swampy Cree ᓀᐦᐃᓇᐍᐏᐣ / Nêhinawêwin Spoken in Canada Region Ontario Native speakers 4,500 (1982) Language … Wikipedia
Swampy Plain River — Swampy Plain RiverVorlage:Infobox Fluss/GKZ fehlt Lage New South Wales (Australien) Flusssystem Murray River Abfluss über Murray River → … Deutsch Wikipedia
swampy cree — noun Usage: usually capitalized S&C 1. : an Algonquian people comprising the Maskegon and the Monsoni formerly inhabiting swampy regions of Manitoba and Ontario from Lake Winnipeg and Lake of the Woods to the Moose river and Hudson Bay and… … Useful english dictionary
