fen

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  1. noun Low, flat, swampy land; a bog or marsh.

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  • "The ogres of the fen are wild and hostile; how could mere Mundanes have bested them These are very tough Mundanes," Imbri explained. —  Night Mare
  • Esk had used it for the path to the ogre fen, and it would not work for him again, so Chex was taking her turn now. —  Vale of the Vole
  • He had asked for the shortest path to the ogre fen, and it had been slightly harrowing in places; the gourd was bound to be worse. —  Vale of the Vole
  • "As long as it's not Z-fen," I said, looking around. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 03] - Darkling
  • He was standing alone among the high reeds of a marshy fen, and a buffalo was lunging at him, head down. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
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morass ·  bog ·  marsh ·  wetlands ·  farmland ·  grassland ·  marshland ·  lagoon ·  moorland ·  estuary ·  moor ·  heath

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fen:   fens
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English fenn.

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  1. from Middle English fen, fenne, a fen, marsh, bog, mud, from Anglo-Saxon fen, fenn, rarely spelled fæn, fænn, a fen, marsh, bog, mud, = OFries. fenne, fene = Dutch veen = OHG.fenni, German fenne = Icelandic fen, a fen, bog, = Gothic (Moesogothic) fani, mud. Perhaps akin to Greek πίνος dirt, filth; or to Greek πηλός = Latin pālus, a marsh: see pool.
  2. A corruption of fend .
  3. Middle English, from Arabic fenn, art.
 

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