fenny

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“The fenny has dried up,” Mr. Kenwood said.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2018

BOURNE, or Bourn, a market town in the S. Kesteven or Stamford parliamentary division of Lincolnshire, England; lying in a fenny district 95 m.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various

East Friesland, as its name shews, is Frisian also; although, with a few exceptional localities in the very fenny districts, the language has been replaced by the German.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Fillet of fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bakae: Eye of newt, and toe of frog;— For a charm, &c.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

On the second day we reached a marshy and fenny country, which owing to immense quantities of rain which had lately fallen, was completely submerged. 

From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by Knapp, William