[ adj ] (of soil) soft and watery <adj.all> the ground was boggy under foota marshy coastline miry roads wet mucky lowland muddy barnyard quaggy terrain the sloughy edge of the pond swampy bayous
marshy \marsh"y\ (m[aum]rsh"[y^]), a. [E. {Marsh}.] 1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.
2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. --Dryden.
The pilot tried to turn the plane back to Bahar Dar, but failed and crashed into marshy ground 14 miles south of the airport.
The suit was originally brought last year on behalf of a Pennsylvania couple that bought a lot in General Development's North Port Charlotte planned community, built in a low-lying, marshy area on Florida's west coast.
This morning, they paddled up or down the Sepik in dugout canoes from their marshy villages.
The Defense Ministry spokesman said the planes had strayed about 310 miles off the assigned course and intruded into restricted airspace over Bhuj, a marshy wasteland near the border with Pakistan.
The region where most of the killing took place is in Burundi's north, a remote hilly and marshy region, around the farming communies of Ntega and Marangara.
At the facility here in Bryan Mound, 50 miles south of Houston, 20 caverns have been hollowed out of a 10-mile-deep salt formation far below the marshy surface.
Once rich through trade in slaves for America, palm oil and fish, the Kalabaris' marshy delta lands are now literally a backwater, Barley says.
The service has called the prospects for breeding this year "grim" because of the loss of marshy areas in the great plains of the United States and Canada.
Lonnie Poling of San Antonio, Texas, got to the marshy shore about 5 a.m.