fenny

Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens.

[I]nnumerable popingayes of ſundry kindes are found chattering in the groues of thoſe fenny places.

[F]or ſo many faire and Nauigable Riuers ſo neere adioyning, and piercing thorovv ſo faire a naturall Land, free from any inundations, or large Fenny vnvvholſome Marſhes, I haue not ſeene, read, nor heard of: […]

Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen.

A fenny gooſe, even as her fleſhe is blacker, ſtoorer, unholſomer, ſo is her feather, for the ſame cauſe, courſer, ſtoorer, and rougher, and therefore I have heard very good fletchers ſay, that the ſecond fether in ſome place is better than the pinion in other ſome.

Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake: […]

Muddy; hence, dirty, filthy.

Lord vvhat a nothing is this little Span, / VVe call a Man! / VVhat fenny traſh maintaines the ſmooth'ring fires / Of his desires!

Alternative form of fennie (“fenestration”).

A female given name, short for Fenella.