Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being bushy, thick, orintermixed, like the branches of a bush.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition or quality of being bushy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic of being
bushy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And by the way, in Britain (i.e. more liberal than the U.S.) the whole P.C. bushiness has been laughed out of the public sphere.
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Normally, in the middle years, one develops a little bushiness above the eyes Martin Scorsese, for instance, but Bumble remains unaffected by time's winged chariot, retaining his two little thin smudges, which seem to have been painted on at an angle to make him look permanently startled.
The ravelled mystery of David Lloyd's eyebrows Martin Kelner 2010
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The morning sun glinting off the lenses of his pince-nez spectacles, combined with the nearly perfect oval of his face and the bushiness of his mustache, produced a distinctly owlish appearance.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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The morning sun glinting off the lenses of his pince-nez spectacles, combined with the nearly perfect oval of his face and the bushiness of his mustache, produced a distinctly owlish appearance.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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So where is that point, and if you see other human beings enjoying a much higher material standard, does it actually change the bushiness of your dendritic arbors?
Community Development Studies in Njombe Schuyler 2008
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So where is that point, and if you see other human beings enjoying a much higher material standard, does it actually change the bushiness of your dendritic arbors?
Archive 2008-04-01 Schuyler 2008
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She likewise beheld him very often, not in regard of any knowlege she took of him: for the bushiness of his beard, strangeness of habit,
The Decameron 2004
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After the haircut he said I needed to clean up my eyebrow bushiness a little and offered to do it for me.
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His black hair (which was not cropped short, as is the fashion) had a lustrous softness, and at the same time an elastic bushiness, which nothing but the finest-tempered health can give; and his complexion, though tanned by exposure, had yet much of the smoothness of youth, save where the razor had passed upon his beard.
Master of His Fate J. Mclaren Cobban
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On the porch were young women coifed according to the latest and most extreme bushiness and young men with their feet on the railing, socks and toothpicks much in evidence.
Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman Emma Speed Sampson 1907
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