as in shaggy
covered with or as if with hair
the vogue for brushy cheeks on men reached a whimsical apex in the 19th century when muttonchop whiskers came in fashion
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Recent Examples of brushy
The fire reached about 40 acres in a spot where brushy canyons, ridges and thick palm tree groves meet with hilltop communities.
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Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2025
From the Mescal Trailhead, the trail rambles through brushy high-desert scrub.
—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2025
These include things like oats, coconut glycerin, and peanut butter in the lumps of coal biscuits, oats, peanut butter and bacon in the bac’n nutty biscuits, and chickpeas, tapioca flour and apples in the brushy sticks.
—Christine Persaud, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
The creek sparkled between brushy banks filled with birds and aquatic insects.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
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Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2025
From the Mescal Trailhead, the trail rambles through brushy high-desert scrub.
—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 8 Nov. 2025
These include things like oats, coconut glycerin, and peanut butter in the lumps of coal biscuits, oats, peanut butter and bacon in the bac’n nutty biscuits, and chickpeas, tapioca flour and apples in the brushy sticks.
—Christine Persaud, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
The creek sparkled between brushy banks filled with birds and aquatic insects.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brushy
Adjective
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Unlike typical mice with short gray-brown coats, these woolly mice have long dirty-blond hair that mimics the shaggy fur that helped protect mammoths from the Arctic cold.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2026
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Fisher accessorized with oversized sunglasses, point-toe heels, and a small brown handbag, wearing her long tresses in beachy waves with shaggy fringe.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
4 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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And despite being a bit hairy, his foot was, in fact, clean.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026
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There were moments where things got a little hairy on socials, but Tiffany and I are really good friends.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The silky, sweet coconut buttercream layered in between and on top is the perfect compliment to the tender cake.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
1 Mar. 2026
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Later, Bella attended an Orebella brunch event in a silky, pale-as-pale lilac and cream Thierry Mugler blazer and skirt.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Brushy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brushy. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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