Swampy

Definition: Swampy

Swampy

Adjective

1. (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"; "swampy bayous".

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Date "swampy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Synonyms: Swampy

Marsh

Adjective: marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy, poachy, quaggy, soft; muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal; moorish, moory; fenny.

Moisture

Swashy, soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking,soft, sodden, sloppy, muddy; swampy. (marshy); irriguous.

Crosswords: Swampy

Home Sweet Swampy (1962)

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Books

• Beetle Bailey: Camp Swampy Strikes Again (reference)

• Beetle Bailey: Welcome to Camp Swampy! (reference)

• Muskekowuck Athinuwick: Original People of the Great Swampy Land (reference)

• Swampy Alligator (reference)

• The Wishing bone cycle : narrative poems from the Swampy Cree Indians (reference)

  (more book examples)

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A swampy shoreline at dusk Hundreds of islands make mapping work difficult. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Swampy river in Nicaragua after drainage. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Health

EEE virus occurs in natural cycles involving birds and Culiseta melanura, in some swampy areas nearly every year during the warm months. (references)

To cope with this dangerous resurgence, public health workers carefully select prevention methods best suited to a particular environment or area. In addition to medicines and insecticides, these include such standbys as draining swampy areas and filling them with dirt, and using window screens, mosquito netting, and insect repellents. (references)

Economic History

Belize

Terrain: Flat and swampy coastline, low mountains in interior. (references)

Indigenous People

Venezuela

Members of the Warao indigenous group of Delta Amacuro state continued to migrate during the year from their homelands in the swampy Orinoco delta to Caracas, where they live in the streets, selling handicrafts and begging. (references)

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Expressions using "swampy": become swampy ♦ get swampy. Additional references.

Albanian

moçalor (bogey, boggy, Fenny, marshy, quaggy, uliginose, uliginous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мочурлив (boggy, marshy, paludal, plashy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy), блатист (boggy, logged, miry, paludal, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, spongy, uliginose, uliginous). (various references)

Czech

moèálovitý, bažinatý (boggy, marshy). (various references)

Danish

sumpet (boggy, marshy, paludal, peaty), toerve- (boggy, marshy, peaty), moseagtig (boggy, marshy, peaty). (various references)

Dutch

venig (boggy, marshy, peaty), veenrijk (boggy, marshy, peaty), veengrond bevattend (boggy, marshy, peaty), veenachtig (boggy, marshy, peaty), moerassig (boggy, marshy, paludal, peaty). (various references)

Farsi 

لجن زار (Bog, Marsh), باتلاقی (Marshy, Mossy, Paludal). (various references)

Finnish

soinen (marshy). (various references)

French

tourbier, tourbeux, marécageux. (various references)

German

sumpfig (boggy, fenny, marshily, marshy, miry). (various references)

Greek 

ελώδης (marshy). (various references)

Hebrew 

בצתי (boggy, marshy), טובע� י (boggy, marshy, waterlogged). (various references)

Hungarian

mocsaras (boggy, Fenny, logged, marshy, sloughy, uliginous), ingoványos (marshy, moorish, quaggy). (various references)

Indonesian

berbencah. (various references)

Italian

torboso (peaty), pantanoso (Fenny), paludoso (boggy, Fenny, marshy), faludoso (boggy, marshy, peaty), acquitrinoso (waterlogged). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

湿地 (swampy damp land). (various references)

Manx

ushlagh (liquid, marshy, watery, wet), fliugh (dank, humid, inclement, marshy, soggy, watery or waxy, watery or waxy of potatoes, wet). (various references)

Pig Latin

ampysway

Portuguese

pantanoso (boggy, fenny, logged, marish, marshy, quaggy, waterlogged), alagadiço (boggy, logged, marshy, quaggy). (various references)

Romanian

mlãştinos (boggy, Fenny, marshy, paludal, quaggy, sloppy), bãltos (boggy). (various references)

Russian 

болотистый (boggy, fenny, marshy, miry, mossy, slimy, squashy). (various references)

Scottish

bodht (swampy ground). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podvodan (subaqueous, submersed), močvaran (boggy, fenny, marshy, poachy, quaggy, sloughy, uliginose, uliginous, weepy). (various references)

Spanish

pantanoso (boggy, difficult, marshy, quaggy, sloughy, thorny). (various references)

Swedish

sumpig (Fenny, quaggy). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งเป็นหนองน้ำ. (various references)

Turkish

bataklıklı (Fenny, quaggy), bataklık (bog, boggy, everglade, Fen, Marsh, morass, moss, muskeg, quag, quagmire, quicksand, sink, Slough, swamp). (various references)

Turkmen 

sьяgeюik (marshy (adj.)). (various references)

Ukrainian

болотистий (boggy, marshy, miry, moorish, mossy, paludal, plashy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

như đầm lầy có đầm lầy, lầy (quaggy). (various references)

paludosus, paluster. (various references)

Misspellings

"Swampy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sanpy, scampy, svamp, swampe, swampt, swamy, swanty, swimp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: swamp, swamy, waspy, yawps.

-2 letters: amps, maps, maws, mays, pams, paws, pays, pyas, samp, spam, spay, swam, swap, sway, waps, wasp, ways, yams, yaps, yawp, yaws.

-3 letters: amp, asp, ays, map, mas, maw, may, pam, pas, paw, pay, pya, sap, saw, say, spa, spy, wap, was, way, yam, yap, yaw.

-4 letters: am, as, aw.