rushy
Origin of rushy
1Other words from rushy
- rush·i·ness, noun
Words Nearby rushy
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How to use rushy in a sentence
It was succeeded 304 by a vast expanse of shallow mere dotted with half-drowned, rushy islets, and swarming with crocodiles.
In the Morning of Time | Charles G. D. RobertsThe eldest had drained a small field, which used to be called the rushy field, from its having been quite covered with rushes.
Tales And Novels, Volume 2 (of 10) | Maria EdgeworthThe blue eyes met mine—there rose the rushy pool, there dozed the broken boat.
1492 | Mary JohnstonFoshla; a marshy weedy rushy place; commonly applied to the ground left after a cut-away bog.
English As We Speak It in Ireland | P. W. JoyceThe bog-track at length became merged in a rushy field, and then indeed did the pent waters of the hunt break forth.
Mount Music | E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross
British Dictionary definitions for rushy
/ (ˈrʌʃɪ) /
abounding in, covered with, or made of rushes
Derived forms of rushy
- rushiness, noun
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