thatchy

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We have thick thatchy grass, dirt, and the worst thing is that it fell off while I was dropping an armful of dead grass over the fence (I didn't see it come off though).

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  • We have thick thatchy grass, dirt, and the worst thing is that it fell off while I was dropping an armful of dead grass over the fence (I didn't see it come off though). —  Ask MetaFilter
  • The author, 76, is tall, lean, and thatchy-haired, but his blue-blooded looks and Harvard-honed bearing are deceptive. —  Reader's Digest
  • A thatchy roof, quite waterproof, —  More Bab Ballads
  • The Tolpatchery, unable to take Trautenau, set fire to it, though it is their own town, their own Queen's town; thatchy —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15
  • Eastern stupidity as caused by thickness of the skull, such thickness being the substitute for thatchy hair suggested by kind ill-used Nature as the hot brain's best protection: we might reason upon the average sheepishness of this peaceful West, as due to having shorn the lion of his mane, Phoebus of his glory, man of his majestic beard. —  The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
 

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