Pertaining to a swamp; consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy: as, swampy land.

adjective. Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy.

adjective. Describing land that is wet like a swamp.

adjective. (of soil) soft and watery

"A long succession of boiling rapids and waterfalls having in days of yore obstructed the passage of the fur-traders, they had landed at the top of them, and cut a pathway through the woods, which happened at this place to be exceedingly swampy: hence the name Savan (or _swampy_) Portage."

marshy  

wet  

Pompey  

alluvial  fertile  fetid  hilly  inland  

boggish  boggy  damp  dampish  dank