Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding in thickets.
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- adjective Covered in
thickets .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm not really surprised to see her here, as there are some thickety patches around that are absolutely crawling with songbirds.
never make a promise or plan. take a little love where you can. coffeeem 2009
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Having stomped through a thickety survey of theoretical cultural-studies approaches to pop music, one arrives here: "Pop can make a sunny day out of bleak midwinter and establish empathy between strangers."
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With Mencken he shares a reflexive sympathy for the underdog, a distaste for cant and an addiction to thickety prose.
Ink-Stained Riches 2008
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I was afraid to shoot it and I got awfully tired carrying it and my father had left me standing in a thickety patch of timber while he was working out the singles from a covey we had scattered.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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I was afraid to shoot it and I got awfully tired carrying it and my father had left me standing in a thickety patch of timber while he was working out the singles from a covey we had scattered.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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I was afraid to shoot it and I got awfully tired carrying it and my father had left me standing in a thickety patch of timber while he was working out the singles from a covey we had scattered.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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Chapman says (Handbook of Birds in Eastern North America) 'it is most at home in secluded woodland and thickety retreats ....
The Waste Land Thomas Stearns 1922
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Once, in a thickety wet tract where the still air was suffocating and a sluggish runlet meandered widely, Hardy was forced, after long hinderance, to drop the trail and recover it on a rising ground beyond.
The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884
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The road soon was among the hills; rough, thickety, wild; from one glen into another, down and up steep ridge-sides, always mounting of course by degrees.
Daisy in the Field 1869
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On they wandered, through the tangled mazes of the thickety vales and marshes.
The British Partizan: A Tale of the Olden Time. By a Lady of South Carolina 1864
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