Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Overgrown with bushes.
  • adjective Thick and shaggy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A countryman.
  • Full of bushes; overgrown with shrubs.
  • Having many close twigs and branches; low and shrubby.
  • Resembling a bush; thick and spreading like a bush: as, a bushy beard.
  • In entomology, covered all round with long, erect hairs, as the antennæ of many msects.

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

  • adjective Thick and spreading, like a bush.
  • adjective Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs.

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

  • adjective Like a bush in having many widely spread branches.

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

  • adjective resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading
  • adjective used of hair; thick and poorly groomed

Etymologies

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bush +‎ -y

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Examples

  • July 15th, 2006 at 2: 24 pm kitchensinkwmds says: seixon forgets that bushy says putin has a beautiful soul! and bushy is never wrong!

    Think Progress » Putin Jabs Bush: ‘We Certainly Would Not Want…The Same Kind of Democracy As They Have in Iraq’ 2006

  • It amazes me to no end how, even with MONUMENTAL evidence of corruption by this idiot president, there are STILL jackasses that think bushy is not doing anything wrong.

    Think Progress » Wash. Times Pushes Surveillance Myths As “News” 2005

  • The tail of the raccoon is full and bushy, which is not true of the cat's tail.

    The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850

  • It's kind of bushy and unkempt, though it's hard to tell whether it's a I-can't-be-bothered kind of thing, or you know, a look.

    Gilbert Arenas and his crazy new beard: Barbers tell us what it means The Reliable Source 2010

  • However, it should be said that urban "hipsters" have adopted many aspects of the stereotypically rural aesthetic, such as bushy beards, old flannel shirts, affinity for cheap beer, and a professed appreciation for country and folk music.

    Ambiguity: Mixed Messages and Style Overlap BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • "Maybe [Toumai] is an indication that there were lots of different species of hominid that were reproductively isolated," says Don Johanson, a "bushy" theorist who discovered the 3 million-year-old "Lucy" bones in 1974.

    All In The Family 2008

  • The hook points out that Eberling is a tall, bald man who wore "bushy" toupees, and witnesses testified they saw a "bushy-haired" man near the Sheppard home on the morning after the murder.

    Hunting 'The Fugitive' 2008

  • Now used generally for remote rural areas ( "the bush") and scrubby forest. bushfire: wild fires: whether forest fires or grass fires. bushman/bushwoman: someone who lives an isolated existence, far from cities, "in the bush". (today: a "bushy") bushranger: an Australian "highwayman", who lived in the ` bush '-- scrub -- and attacked especially gold carrying coaches and banks.

    Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

  • The lower part produces a number of stalks or suckers, which diffuse the tree considerably, and form a kind of bushy forest.

    Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I Francis Augustus Cox 1818

  • The only thing I've ever criticized little Lourdes on was the eyebrows - I feel strongly that with those kind of bushy-eyebrow genes, it's never too young to start plucking, trust me.

    The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories 2009

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