Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bushy
IPA transcription: [b'ʊʃi]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: bushy, shaggy, shaggy-haired, shaggy-coated
    Meaning: used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; "bushy locks"; "a shaggy beard"
Usage examples
  • He has a big, bushy tail, very like Happy Jack's.
  • He caught her by her bushy hair as she turned to fly.
  • Grandfather tucked his bushy white beard inside his overcoat.
  • "We get from Mr. Bushy, at the post-office,--what he throw out.
  • His hair was black and bushy and seemed inclined to curl at the ends.
  • He was a fine-looking beast, bigger than a collie, with jet-black hair and a white-tipped bushy tail.
  • "And how long will you be gone, papa?" asked Mary, who was perched upon her father's knee, where she could nestle her soft cheek against his bushy whiskers.
  • There it is, a great animal, half the length of one's arm, with bushy, long red tail arched high for easier running, its grayish coat showing in the bars of sunlight, its eyes bright and black and keen.
  • Its beauty is lost if it is crowded up among other things in a border; it should be grown in a dry wall or steep rocky bank, where its handsome bushy growth and finely-poised spikes of bloom can be well seen.
  • It was a bright morning in the early part of summer; the river had resumed its wonted banks and its accustomed pace, and a hot sun seemed to be pulling everything green and bushy and spiky up out of the earth towards him, as if by strings.