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fen

US/fɛn/ uncommon informal obsolete slang

noun

1.

100 fen equal 1 yuan

2.

low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water

  • “thousands of acres of marshland”
  • “the fens of eastern England”
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Origin

From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanją, from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”). See also West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen; also Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”).

Phrases

  • fen cricket
  • Fen Drayton
  • fen fire
  • fen goose
  • fen island
  • fen nettle
  • fen nightingale
  • Mareham le Fen

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