In dictionaries:
dismal swamp
Gloomy, marshy, often extensive wetland.
dismal science
Economics, often pessimistic social science.
dismal Jimmy
(derogatory) A melancholy or peevish person; a gloomy complainer.
Great Dismal Swamp
a large swamp in the Coastal Plain Region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the eastern United States, between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
dismal sciences
The dismal science
a derogatory term for the discipline of economics.
Great Dismal Swamp maroons
The Great Dismal Swamp maroons refers to people who inhabited the islands and hummocks within the swamplands of the Great Dismal Swamp, located on the border between Virginia and North Carolina, on the Atlantic Coastal Plains, after escaping enslavement.
Dismal Swamp Canal
a canal located along the eastern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina in the United States.
Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
created in 1974 to help protect and preserve a portion of the Great Dismal Swamp, a marshy region on the Coastal Plain of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina in the United States.
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