rushy

American  

[ruhsh-ee] / ˈrʌʃ i /

adjective

rushier, rushiest

1. abounding with rushes or their stems.

2. covered or strewn with rushes.

3. consisting or made of rushes.

4. rushlike.

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rushy British  

/ ˈrʌʃɪ /

adjective

1. abounding in, covered with, or made of rushes

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Other Word Forms

• rushiness noun

Etymology

Origin of rushy

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at rush ², -y ¹

Example Sentences

"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

And is there not such delight and wonder in— ‘Meet we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or on the beached margent of the sea’?

From Ideas of Good and Evil by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

Haste, or e'er the third hour glowing With its eager thirst prevail O'er the moist pearls, now bestrowing Thymy slope and rushy vale.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

Many are the hundreds of hill and mountain lochs to us as familiarly known, round all their rushy or rocky margins, as that pond there in the garden of Buchanan Lodge.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

Here from a rushy patch sprang three yeld hinds from almost underfoot, and splashed off through the shallows, their russet coats gleaming in the morning sunlight.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.