a. [f. SWAMP sb. + -ISH1.] = SWAMPY.

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1725.  MSS. Dk. Portland (Hist. MSS. Comm.), VI. 121. The ground is very swampish and damp.

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1880.  Miss Bird, Japan, I. 123. Passing over a swampish level.

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  Hence Swampishness.

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1879.  Miss Bird, Rocky Mountains, 20. The road at first lay through a valley without a river, but some swampishness nourished some rank swamp-grass.

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