Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Overgrown with furze; full of furze.

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

  • adjective Abounding in, or overgrown with, furze; characterized by furze.

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  • adjective Where furze grows.

Etymologies

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furze +‎ -y

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Examples

  • The fog of the last three weeks was gone, neither did any rime remain; but all things had a look of sameness, and a kind of furzy colour.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The fog of the last three weeks was gone, neither did any rime remain; but all things had a look of sameness, and a kind of furzy colour.

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • I had skipped from bed to bed and from box to box in a cold agony and every time I touched anything that was furzy I fancied I felt the fangs.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • I had skipped from bed to bed and from box to box in a cold agony and every time I touched anything that was furzy I fancied I felt the fangs.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • Among the few features of agricultural England which retain an appearance but little modified by the lapse of centuries, may be reckoned the high, grassy and furzy downs, coombs, or ewe-leases, as they are indifferently called, that fill a large area of certain counties in the south and south-west.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • As the girl proceeded these glades became more frequent, the trees began again to decline in size, and the wood to degenerate into furzy coverts.

    Lay Morals 2005

  • The farm was not so large or rambling as to tire the mind or foot, yet wide enough and full of change — rich pasture, hazel copse, green valleys, fallows brown, and golden breast-lands pillowing into nooks of fern, clumps of shade for horse or heifer, and for rabbits sandy warren, furzy cleve for hare and partridge, not without a little mere for willows and for wild-ducks.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • For now the fields were spread with growth, and the waters clad with sunshine, and light and shadow, step by step, wandered over the furzy cleves.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • French ever land, we must endeavour to draw them into furzy ground, and then set the Volunteers at them.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Three greyhounds were slipped upon him, whom he threw out, after running a couple of miles, by entering an extensive furzy brake which extended along the side of a hill.

    Waverley 2004

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