vly

noun

SayVLY/vlaɪ/

Pluralvlies

2 meanings of vly

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noundialectalNew YorkUScountable
A small piece of low, wet, muddy ground, often close to a stream.
Like a small patch of soft, wet ground where your boots sink in.
The cows wandered into the vly and got stuck in the mud.
We crossed a small vly on the way down to the river.
Similarmarsh, swamp, wetland
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noundialectalSouthern Africa
Another spelling of vlei. It means the same thing: a small marsh or wet patch of ground.
The trail dipped down toward a muddy vly near the pond.
Birds nested all along the edge of the vly.
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Origin

From a dialect form of Middle Dutch "valeye," meaning "valley." Its meaning shifted to "swamp," either in Middle Dutch or later among Dutch colonists.