Definitions for marshy

marshy marsh·y

Spelling: [mahr-shee]
IPA: /ˈmɑr ʃi/

Marshy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in marshy (ahmrsy).

Definitions for marshy

adjective

  1. like a marsh; soft and wet; boggy.
  2. pertaining to a marsh.
  3. consisting of or constituting a marsh, bog, swamp, or the like.

Origin of marshy

First recorded in 1350-1400, marshy is from the Middle English word mershi. See marsh, -y1

Examples for marshy

The region, as far as the eye could reach, was low and marshy, with no landmarks.

Apaches used what was once a marshy ciénaga as a water hole for centuries.

At either end of it was low, marshy ground, difficult to pass.

A muddy, marshy, unhealthy spot, it was unfitted for a city.

All day we ride along the hills skirting the marshy plain of Huleh.

Its back was to the slopes that rose by marshy terraces to the hills.

A marshy meadow had been selected by his forbears for colonization.

The district was wild and marshy, with few signs of any inhabitants.

Behind this fringe of marshy land you see the finest country in the world.

Alas, you are most often found along the marshy borders of the kingdom of the winds.

Word Value for marshy
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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