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fen
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanj? (compare West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen), from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”). Compare Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit ???? (pa?ka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”).
Noun
fen (plural fens)
- A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, "England, 1802," collected in Poems (1807):
- Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
- England hath need of thee: she is a fen
- Of stagnant waters […]
- 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Slave in the Dismal Swamp, from Poems on Slavery:
- In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp / The hunted Negro lay; [...]
- 1807, William Wordsworth, "England, 1802," collected in Poems (1807):
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- bog
- everglade
- marsh
- swamp
- wetland
Etymology 2
Noun
fen (plural fens)
- A unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan.
Translations
Etymology 3
From fan, by analogy with men as the plural of man.
Noun
fen pl (normally plural, singular fan)
- (dated, fandom slang) Fans; a plural form used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
Coordinate terms
- fenne
Derived terms
Etymology 4
Compare fend.
Interjection
fen
- (obsolete) Used in children's games to prevent or forestall another player's action; a check or bar.
Etymology 5
From Middle English *vene, Kentish variant of *fine, from Old English fyne (“moisture, mold, mildew”), from Proto-Germanic *funiz, *fun- (“moisture, mold”); compare vinew.
Noun
fen (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A kind of mildew that grows on hops.
Anagrams
- ENF, nef
Catalan
Verb
fen
- third-person singular present indicative form of fendre
- second-person singular imperative form of fendre
Chuukese
Adjective
fen
- holy
Synonyms
- pin
Adverb
fen
- past tense marker for verbs
- already
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?f?n]
- Rhymes: -?n
Etymology 1
Noun
fen m
- fen (unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan).
Declension
Etymology 2
Noun
fen
- genitive plural of fena
Further reading
- fen in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
Dalmatian
Etymology
From Latin f?nitus. Compare Italian fino.
Adjective
fen (feminine faina)
- fine
- subtle
- pure
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse fen, from Proto-Germanic *fanj?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fe?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Noun
fen n (genitive singular fens, plural fen)
- bog, quagmire
Declension
Derived terms
- fenbressa
- fendíki
- fenjutur
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin faenum, f?num.
Noun
fen m (plural fens)
- hay
Related terms
- fenoli
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?f?n]
- Hyphenation: fen
- Rhymes: -?n
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pän? (“grindstone; grind”).
Verb
fen
- (transitive) to sharpen, to whet, to hone
- Synonyms: köszörül, élesít, élez
- (dialectal) to rub, to smear
- Synonyms: ken, dörgöl
Conjugation
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
fen (plural fenek)
- fen (unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan)
Declension
References
Further reading
- (to whet): fen in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse fen, from Proto-Germanic *fanj?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Noun
fen n (genitive singular fens, nominative plural fen)
- fen, marsh, morass
Declension
Istriot
Etymology
From Latin faenum, f?num.
Noun
fen
- hay
Mandarin
Romanization
fen
- Nonstandard spelling of f?n.
- Nonstandard spelling of fén.
- Nonstandard spelling of f?n.
- Nonstandard spelling of fèn.
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- fenne, ven
Etymology
From Old English fenn; from Proto-Germanic *fanj?. The "dung" sense is influenced by Old French fien.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?n/
Noun
fen (plural fennes)
- fen, bog, swamp
- dirt, muddiness
- dung, feces
- (rare) rubbish, refuse
- (rare) quagmire, lure
Declension
Descendants
- English: fen
- Scots: fen
References
- “fen, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “fen, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fanj?.
Noun
fen n (genitive fens, plural fen)
- bog, quagmire
Declension
References
- fen in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Föhn.
Noun
f?n m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- hair dryer
- (meteorology) foehn
Declension
Swedish
Noun
fen
- definite singular of fe
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ????? (fann).
Noun
fen (definite accusative fenni, plural fenler)
- science
Declension
Synonyms
- ilim
- bilim
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slough
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh. Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon sl?k (“snakeskin”), Middle High German sl?ch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).
Alternative forms
- sluff
Pronunciation
- enPR: sl?f, IPA(key): /sl?f/
- Rhymes: -?f
Noun
slough (countable and uncountable, plural sloughs)
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
Translations
Verb
slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed)
- (transitive) To shed (skin).
- This skin is being sloughed.
- Snakes slough their skin periodically.
- (intransitive) To slide off (like a layer of skin).
- A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
- 2013, Casey Watson, Mummy’s Little Helper: The heartrending true story of a young girl:
- The mud sloughed off her palms easily […]
- (transitive, card games) To discard.
- East sloughed a heart.
- (intransitive, slang, Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
- Synonym: ditch
Derived terms
- slough off
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old English sl?h, probably from Proto-Germanic *sl?haz.
Pronunciation
- (General Australian, UK):
- enPR: slou, IPA(key): /sla?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- (US): enPR: slou, slo?o, IPA(key): /sla?/, /slu?/
- Rhymes: -a?, -u?
Noun
slough (plural sloughs)
- (Britain) A muddy or marshy area.
- 1883 "That comed - as you call it - of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough. — Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- (Eastern United States) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
- (Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
- A state of depression.
- John is in a slough.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.
Derived terms
- slough of despond
- sloughy
- slough hay
- slough shark
Translations
Anagrams
- Loughs, ghouls, loughs
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- what's slough like to live in
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- what's slough famous for
- what's slough like
- what slough looks like
- what sloughs off dead skin
- what slough postcodes are in tier 2
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