bushy

[ boosh-ee ]

adjective

, bush·i·er, bush·i·est.

1. resembling a bush; thick and shaggy:

   bushy whiskers.

2. full of or overgrown with bushes. bush.

bushy

¹

/ ˈbʊʃɪ /

noun

1. a person who lives in the bush
2. an unsophisticated uncouth person
3. a member of a bush fire brigade

bushy

²

/ ˈbʊʃɪ /

adjective

1. covered or overgrown with bushes
2. thick and shaggy

   bushy eyebrows

Derived Forms

• ˈbushiness, noun
• ˈbushily, adverb

Other Words From

• bushi·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of bushy¹

First recorded in 1350–1400, bushy is from the Middle English word busshi. See bush ¹, -y ¹

Example Sentences

Fossil discoveries in the ’60s and ’70s revealed a bushier family tree, with many dead-end branches.

From Science News

Today, this region is characterized by bushy, fire-tolerant open woodlands that do not develop a thick and enclosed canopy.

From Singularity Hub 

Bilgram, his 2-year-old beard more Castaway than a stranded Tom Hanks, plastered his bushy image all over the brand.

From Ozy

Squirrels came a-leaping from near and far, sinking into the tall grass, then surging into the air, bodies outstretched, bushy tails aloft, before arcing downward again, some gracefully, others like Lilliputian lumbering bears.

From Washington Post

As a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed grad student, I felt extraordinarily lucky to be there among the world’s top experts.

From Quanta Magazine

With this hideous bushy outcrop, the beard has reached its end game.

From The Daily Beast

The typically fresh-faced, photogenic 31-year-old actor is sporting a bushy, unkempt, downright Biblical-looking beard.

From The Daily Beast

On a “warm up session,” he can be seen donning a checkered shirt and baseball hat atop his bushy ponytail.

From The Daily Beast

He wears large turbans, sports a long and bushy gray beard, is some six-feet three inches tall and weighs a beefy 250 pounds.

From The Daily Beast

Then, he engages in a full-on make-out session with his former SNL compadre Will Forte, sporting a bushy beard.

From The Daily Beast

His face was hidden beneath a beard of bristling, bushy red, and he had a sharp hook nose and small, bright eyes.

From Project Gutenberg

Was it some one who had watched the swift, sure-footed spring of a bushy-tailed squirrel from branch to branch?

From Project Gutenberg

After that he and Mert, as by a common thought impelled, climbed out and went over to a bushy live oak to confer in privacy.

From Project Gutenberg

These travelled follows are outrageous bores, with their bushy moustachios and outlandish lingo.

From Project Gutenberg

He noted plenty of small ones but their short, bushy tails revealed colthood.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• fluffy
• fuzzy
• hairy
• luxuriant
• unruly
• wiry