noun
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a person who lives in the bush
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an unsophisticated uncouth person
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a member of a bush fire brigade
adjective
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covered or overgrown with bushes
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thick and shaggy
bushy eyebrows
Other Word Forms
- bushily adverb
- bushiness noun
Etymology
Origin of bushy
First recorded in 1350–1400, bushy is from the Middle English word busshi. See bush 1, -y 1
Example Sentences
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Bellowing "Silence, everyone!" to terrified parliamentarians, the man with a bushy moustache and shiny tricorn quickly caught the public's attention in an image engraved on the nation's collective memory.
From Barron's
Even his bushy tail wasn’t jumping and that was very unusual.
From Literature
The group that had walked in before them were in the backyard filling up their baskets with the lemons from a tall, bushy tree.
From Literature
My back stooped and bulged; I was bald in all the places you’d want hair and bushy in places you didn’t.
From Literature
The houses promised by the government were incomplete, the cement still wet, so they slept outdoors at first, terrified of snakes and other wild animals in the bushy new clearing.
From Literature
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