fever-swamp

plural fever-swamps

1. Alternative form of fever swamp.
   1. Disease-ridden swamp.

      It was so hot in this fever-swamp that his water requirements would be prodigious.

      2006, Hugh Cook, The Worshippers and the Way, →ISBN, page 260

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      Think of it as the Martian equivalent of the Fountain of Youth, which that grizzled and gullible old soldier-of-fortune, Ponce de Leon, once searched for in the fever-swamps of Florida, and you will not be far off the mark.

      1974, Lin Carter, The valley where time stood still, page 31

      And now we were fairly on the bosom of the 'mighty' Mississippi, that largest, and ugliest, and most tremendous of rivers ; tremendous through the force of its resistless currents, and the fever-swamps that spread their noxious vapours over its surface.

      2007, Matilda Houstoun, Hesperos - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 42

   2. Group of political extremists.

      The community has been the focus of the fever-swamp for years, with pundits insisting it's a terrorist training camp.

      2017 February 21, Heather Yakin, “Our Muslim neighbors are being targeted with violent threats”, in Times Herald-Record

   3. Extreme political positions.

      Among those caught up in the fever-swamp was Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush's two White House wins.

      2014, John Avlon, Wingnuts: Extremism in the Age of Obama, →ISBN, page 252