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Middle English
Noun
venie
- Alternative form of vyny
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English fenny, from Old English fenniġ, equivalent to ven + -ie.
Pronunciation
Adjective
venie
- dirty
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Venie bogher; Venie sheardh.- A dirty road; A dirty gap.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 75