bushful
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bushful (plural bushfuls)
- As much as a bush holds.
- 1884, Ambrose Bierce, A Tough Tussle:
- What caused the breaking of that twig? — what the low, alarmed twittering in that bushful of birds?
- 2011, Josie Dew, Slow Coast Home:
- The best thing about Hayling Island (apart from its spanners) was its bounteous bushfuls of blackberries, from which I readily grazed.
- 2019, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain:
- He rooted in the ground for pale grubs and tore at bee trees for honey and ate huckleberries by the bushful and was happy and strong.