fenny

adjective3

1. •
   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. — 1555
2. •
   Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen.

   • Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake: […] — 1606
3. •
   (no longer used) 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! — 1635