bushy

[boosh-ee]

adjective

bushier, bushiest 

1. resembling a bush; thick and shaggy.

   bushy whiskers.

2. full of or overgrown with bushes. bush.

bushy

¹

/ ˈbʊʃɪ /

noun

1. a person who lives in the bush

2. an unsophisticated uncouth person

3. a member of a bush fire brigade

bushy

²

/ ˈbʊʃɪ /

adjective

1. covered or overgrown with bushes

2. thick and shaggy

   bushy eyebrows

Other Word Forms

• bushily adverb
• bushiness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of bushy¹

First recorded in 1350–1400, bushy is from the Middle English word busshi. See bush ¹, -y ¹

Example Sentences

He looks to his bandmates for reassurance, his soulful eyes framed by his still fabulously bushy eyebrows.

From Los Angeles Times

Nope, “Train Dreams” is here and there’s something about its poise and intimacy that makes it feel, finally, like Netflix has a big awards winner, provided viewers can get beyond Joel Edgerton’s bushy beard.

From Los Angeles Times

But Mitchell, whose bushy beard and joking personality complement a perpetually smiling visage, turned serious when explaining the end of his career.

From Los Angeles Times

They saw a broken concrete slab in a bushy area and pulled it up to reveal a hole.

From BBC

Veytia, a portly figure with a bushy mustache, seemed an unlikely Eliot Ness, but he was credited with reducing violence and hailed as “the terror of every criminal” in a laudatory corrido, or ballad.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• fluffy 
• fuzzy 
• hairy 
• luxuriant 
• unruly 
• wiry