THICKET
ADJECTIVES
► BUSKY covered with bushes; full of thickets; bushy → 1570 obs.
► QUEACHY forming a dense growth or thicket → 1565 obs.
► RAMAGE full of thickets, rough → c1475
NOUNS
► BUSHAILE a copse or thicket; often as a place of concealment, an ambush → a1400 obs.
► BUSHET a small shrub or bush; a small thicket → 1573 obs.
► BUSHMENT a thicket, a mass of bushes → 1587 obs.
► CHAPARRAL a tangle, a thicket → 1875 Amer. dial.
► CRIPPLE a dense thicket, usually in marshy land → Amer. dial.
► CROOKED BRUSH a thicket → 1969 Amer. dial.
► ELFIN FOREST a thicket, a scrub forest → 1955 Amer. dial.
► GREAVE a thicket → 1050 obs.
► LOGAN a damp thicket → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► QUEACH a dense growth of bushes; a thicket → c1450 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► THICK a thicket → 1853 Amer. dial.
► TITI a dense thicket → 1905 Amer. dial.