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Origin of rushy
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at rush 2, -y 1
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"It's almost a religion for me," he says, citing "the rushy, on-edge feeling anything can happen at any moment."
From Time Magazine Archive
Bloom down-cheeked peaches, Wild free-born cranberries, Pineapples, strawberries, All ripe together In summer weather. are hardly the produce of the rushy glen where the leering goblin merchants tramped and whisked up and down.
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren’t go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl’s feather!
From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell
Titania also tells how the fairy race meet “on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
The first to open was the smaller species, with its rushy foliage and slender spikes of bloom.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
The Little Loch was the rushiest and reediest little rascal that ever rustled, and he was on the very edge of the Moor.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
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