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adj
Having the characteristics of a wetland; marshy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: boggy, miry, mucky, swampy, boggish, fennish, fenny, marish, marshy, moorish, moory, morassy, paludal, paludine, paludinous, palustral, palustrine, palustrous, poachy, quaggy, queachy, sloughy, slumpy, spewy, swaly, swampish, syrtic, uliginous, wiery
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Resembling dead skin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: scarious, scruffy, scurfy, sluffy, reef, roynish, scabby, scabrate, scabrid, scabrous, scald, scalled, scurvy
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
(of soil) soft and watery
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
Antonyms: none provided
History
From slough (“marshy area”) + -y.
From slough (“shed skin; dead skin”) + -y.
