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brambly

American  
[bram-blee] / ˈbræm bli /

adjective

bramblier, brambliest
  1. having or resembling brambles.


Etymology

Origin of brambly

First recorded in 1575–85; bramble + -y 1


Example Sentences

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Cate Le Bon – Are You With Me Now While Le Bon’s lyrics speak of being haunted by loneliness, her gorgeous melodies are a tonic, her brambly guitar full of pep.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2020

And a brambly, cathartic rant on “the holidays”:

From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2016

Soon Emperor and Bathory and Immortal and other early black-metal bands began to infest my apartment with their brambly logos.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2014

There wasn’t a bit of vegetation in sight, beyond a few brambly thorn bushes, low and leafless in the sand.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2013

He edged up the trunk, to his favorite place in the crook of two branches, and looked down at the Potter’s Field below him, a brambly patch of weeds and unmown grass in the moonlight.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

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