SWAMPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swampy mean? 

• SWAMPY (adjective)
  The adjective SWAMPY has 1 sense:

1. (of soil) soft and watery

  Familiarity information: SWAMPY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWAMPY (adjective)

Comparative: swampier   
Superlative: swampiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of soil) soft and watery

Synonyms:

boggy; marshy; miry; mucky; muddy; quaggy; sloppy; sloughy; soggy; squashy; swampy; waterlogged

Context example:

swampy bayous

Similar:

wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)

Derivation:

swamp (low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog)

 Context examples 

A wilderness of swampy forest, where no white man has ever been.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The chase led him across swampy ground in the bottom of the valley, and he came upon footprints in the soggy moss.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The ebb had already run some time, and I had to wade through a long belt of swampy sand, where I sank several times above the ankle, before I came to the edge of the retreating water, and wading a little way in, with some strength and dexterity, set my coracle, keel downwards, on the surface.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Below, it is a swampy, jungly region, full of snakes, insects, and fever.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had followed the trail of his fleeing people for eleven days, and his pursuit had been in itself a flight; for behind him he knew full well were the dreaded Russians, toiling through the swampy lowlands and over the steep divides, bent on no less than the extermination of all his people.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

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.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)