DCHP-3

muskegy

[< muskeg + -y]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

characterized by swampy terrain, or muskeg.

Quotations

1875
He speaks of an Arctic December whose piercing frosts the warmest rays of June cannot overtake; of prairie--vast "muskegy" stretches with not even a spring to slake the traveller's thirst--whose monotony is relieved only by impudent gophers, and where black-fly bull-dogs torment by day and mosquitoes by the million at night.
1875
From that point to Lake Winnipeg, about fifteen miles, we passed over a marshy, muskegy region.