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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
He glanced over his shoulder and saw the sun shining on the flat rushy plat beyond the ford, which the horses' feet had fouled while their riders debated.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman
A rushy glade before us was dotted all over with them; their pied breasts surmounted nearly every bush.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
We were now on a heathery table-land, with patches of splashy, rushy ground, from which the snipe flickered out as the hounds cast themselves through it.
From In Mr. Knox's Country by Martin Ross
Anne, now, drives me nearly wild with her rushy, helter-skelter ways.
From The Girls and I A Veracious History by Mrs. Molesworth
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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