marshy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite (of soil) soft and watery
    mucky; swampy; soggy; boggy; quaggy; muddy; sloughy; sloppy; miry; waterlogged; squashy.
    • the ground was boggy under foot
    • a marshy coastline
    • miry roads
    • wet mucky lowland
    • muddy barnyard
    • quaggy terrain
    • the sloughy edge of the pond
    • swampy bayous

WordNet

Marsh"y adjective
Etymology
E. Marsh.
Definitions
  1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.
  2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. Dryden.

Webster 1913