Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of brakes; a bounding with brambles or shrubs; rough; thorny: as, “braky thickets and deep sloughs,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Overgrown with bracken or brushwood

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective abounding with bracken
  • adjective covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

root of bracken + -y

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word braky.

Examples

  • -- A man should so deliver himself to the nature of the subject whereof he speaks, that his hearer may take knowledge of his discipline with some delight; and so apparel fair and good matter, that the studious of elegancy be not defrauded; redeem arts from their rough and braky seats, where they lay hid and overgrown with thorns, to a pure, open, and flowery light, where they may take the eye and be taken by the hand.

    Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605

  • i am not a miley cyrus fan i haven't even seen her show but she's realy good singer not better than carrie underwood but she's ok unfortunatly the climb is going to do with her carreer what aki braky hart thit with her dad turning her into a one hit wonder and i hope that dosen't happen.

    EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.