BUSH, BUSHY
ADJECTIVES
1570 — BUSKY covered with bushes; full of thickets; bushy → obs.
1623 — DUMOSOUS full of bushes
1682 — FRUTICEOUS shrubby, bushy → obs.
1721 — DUMOSE full of bushes
1789 — SCROGGY having rough, stunted bushes or branches; abounding in underwood → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1847 — DUMOUS full of bushes
1867 — SCROG covered with bushes → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1911 — BOOZY → BOWSIE bushy, hairy → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BOUSY → BOUZY covered with bushes → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BOWZELLY bushy, unkempt Ï Sc. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1450 — QUEACH a dense growth of bushes; a thicket → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1562 — BUSHLING a little bush
1573 — BUSHET a small bush or shrub; a small thicket → obs.
1579 — BUSKET a small bush or shrub → obs.
1587 — BUSHMENT a mass of bushes; a thicket → obs.
1822 — BUSHLET a tiny bush
1901 — PUCKERBRUSH a tangled growth of bushes and small trees → Amer. dial.
1904 — SCRAY a bush → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1999 — DONGA → DONGER the bush; the outback → Aust. sl. (Bk.)