fenny

a. 沼泽的, 长在沼泽地带的, 住在沼泽地的

发音

US /ˈfɛni/
其它
UK /ˈfɛni/

词形变化

fennies 复数 fennies fenniest more fenny 比较级 most fenny 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Alternative form of fennie (“fenestration”).

    非正式 植物学 商务
adj.
  1. 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.

  2. 2.

    Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen.

  3. 3.

    Muddy; hence, dirty, filthy.

    比喻 废旧

相关短语

Fenny Stratford Fenny Compton Fenny Bridges Bletchley and Fenny Stratford

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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