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—poachiness, n./poh"chee/, adj., poachier, poachiest.(of land) slushy; swampy.[1700-10; POACH1 + -Y1]
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Poachy — Poach y (p[=o]ch [y^]), a. [See {Poach} to stab.] Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; said of land [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
poachy — [pōch′ē] adj. poachier, poachiest [ POACH2 + Y2] soggy or swampy; sodden: said of land … English World dictionary
poachy — ˈpōchē, chi adjective ( er/ est) Etymology: poach (II) + y : easily cut up or made muddy by the feet of cattle : sodden, swampy a poachy field … Useful english dictionary
Poachiness — Poach i*ness, n. The state of being poachy; marshiness. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
boggy — Synonyms and related words: boggish, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, fenny, humid, marish, marshy, mirish, miry, moist, moorish, moory, muddy, muggy, paludal, paludous, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, rainy, roric, roriferous, spouty, sticky, swampish,… … Moby Thesaurus
marshy — Synonyms and related words: boggish, boggy, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, fenny, humid, marish, mirish, miry, moist, moorish, moory, muddy, muggy, paludal, paludous, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, rainy, roric, roriferous, spouty, sticky, swampish,… … Moby Thesaurus
miry — Synonyms and related words: boggish, boggy, dingy, dirty, dusty, fenny, grimy, grubby, grungy, marish, marshy, messy, mirish, moorish, moory, mucky, muddy, oozy, paludal, paludous, plashy, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, scruffy, slabby, slobby, sloppy … Moby Thesaurus
muddy — Synonyms and related words: achromatic, achromic, addled, amorphous, anemic, ashen, ashy, becloud, bedraggled, befog, befouled, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmirch, besmirched, besmoke, besoil, bespatter, black, bled white, blind, bloodless, blotchy … Moby Thesaurus
paludal — Synonyms and related words: boggish, boggy, fenny, marish, marshy, mirish, miry, moorish, moory, muddy, paludous, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, spouty, swampish, swampy, uliginous … Moby Thesaurus
swampy — Synonyms and related words: boggish, boggy, damp, dampish, dank, dewy, fenny, humid, marish, marshy, mirish, miry, moist, moorish, moory, muddy, muggy, paludal, paludous, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, rainy, roric, roriferous, spouty, sticky,… … Moby Thesaurus
