marshy

adj
/ˈmɑɹʃi/US

Etymology

From Middle English mersshy, mershi, equivalent to marsh + -y.

  1. inherited from mersshy

Definitions

  1. Of, or resembling a marsh

    Of, or resembling a marsh; boggy.

    • the marshy nature of the ground
    • Nearer the coast, the land becomes markedly more marshy, with long, winding channels striking inland from the sea, making access to some of the waterside villages rather difficult.
    • West of Keswick a short descent at 1 in 122 brings the train down to the low-lying and marshy ground between Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lake and to the crossing of the Derwent - the outfall from Derwentwater, [...].
  2. Growing in marshy ground.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at marshy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at marshy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at marshy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA