marshy adj : (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: {boggy}, {miry}, {mucky}, {muddy}, {quaggy}, {sloughy}, {swampy}] [also: {marshiest}, {marshier}] marshier See {marshy}