Obs. exc. dial. Also 1 fyniȝ, 8 vinny. [OE. fyniȝ, f. fyne, FEN sb.2 mould. Cf. FINEW.] Spoiled with damp, mouldy, musty.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Josh. ix. 5. Finie hlafas.

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1573.  Tusser, Husb., xxxv. (1878), 83.

        More fennie the laier the better his lust,
More apt to beare hops when it crumbles like dust.

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1674.  Ray, S. & E. C. Words, 65. Fenny cheese, mouldy cheese, Kent.

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1736.  Lewis, Thanet Gloss., Fenny, rotten, mouldy cheese ‘vinny cheese.’

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c. 1860.  Kentish dial., ‘This bread is fenny ma’am, all through lying in that damp place.’

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