Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: swampy
IPA transcription: [sw'ɑmpi]
Pronunciations of swampy
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
    Meaning: (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"
Usage examples
  • Then from Catfish to Babylon it's a little swampy, but there's dead loads of peat down under there somewhere.
  • I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and I had now come out upon the skirts of an open piece of undulating, sandy country, about a mile long, dotted with a few pines and a great number of contorted trees, not unlike the oak in growth, but pale in the foliage, like willows.
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