Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling a brush; full of brush; rough; shaggy; long-haired.

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

  • adjective Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

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

  • adjective Having a similar texture to a fox's tail; bushy.
  • adjective Of the countryside Having thick vegetation, larger than grass but smaller than trees.

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

  • adjective covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets

Etymologies

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brush +‎ -y

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