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rushy

[ ruhsh-ee ]

adjective

, rush·i·er, rush·i·est.
  1. abounding with rushes rush or their stems.
  2. covered or strewn with rushes. rush.
  3. consisting or made of rushes. rush.


ˈrushy

/ ˈrʌʃɪ /

adjective

  1. abounding in, covered with, or made of rushes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈrushiness, noun
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Other Words From

  • rushi·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rushy1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; rush 2, -y 1
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Example Sentences

It was succeeded 304 by a vast expanse of shallow mere dotted with half-drowned, rushy islets, and swarming with crocodiles.

The eldest had drained a small field, which used to be called the rushy field, from its having been quite covered with rushes.

The blue eyes met mine—there rose the rushy pool, there dozed the broken boat.

Foshla; a marshy weedy rushy place; commonly applied to the ground left after a cut-away bog.

The bog-track at length became merged in a rushy field, and then indeed did the pent waters of the hunt break forth.

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