Bushy
['bʊʃɪ] or [bʊʃi]
Definition
(adj.) resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading .
(adj.) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; 'bushy locks'; 'a shaggy beard' .
Editor: Nancy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Thick and spreading, like a bush.
(a.) Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs.
Checker: Rita
Examples
- He had thick bushy eyebrows, with little twinkling bloodshot eyes, surrounded by a thousand wrinkles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Was it some one who had watched the swift, sure-footed spring of a bushy-tailed squirrel from branch to branch? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was a tall fellow, with an olive complexion, long dark hair, and very thick bushy whiskers meeting under his chin. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He had bushy eyebrows that grew together in the center. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His bushy light-brown curls, as well as his youthfulness, identified him at once with Celia's apparition. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Letterblair's bushy eyebrows went up a fraction of an inch. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He was prematurely bald on the top of his head, and had bushy black eyebrows that wouldn't lie down but stood up bristling. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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