Brushfire
limited in scope, area, or importance, as some labor disputes or local skirmishes.
Contemporary Examples
The Extinction Parade: An Original Zombie Story by Max Brooks Max Brooks January 13, 2011
You, Too, Could Be a Homicidal Zealot Joel Gold July 6, 2014
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- Brushier
resembling a brush, especially in roughness or shagginess. covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood. adjective brushier, brushiest like a brush; thick and furry adjective brushier, brushiest covered or overgrown with brush
- Brushy
resembling a brush, especially in roughness or shagginess. covered or overgrown with brush or brushwood. Contemporary Examples Brunello’s King Lear: Gianfranco Soldera Reflects on the Attack on His Wine Alice Feiring December 7, 2013 Obama Love/Hate in the Gulf Jed Horne August 28, 2010 Historical Examples Cow-Country B. M. Bower Dwellers in Arcady Albert Bigelow […]
- Brushiness
a dense growth of bushes, shrubs, etc.; scrub; thicket. a pile or covering of lopped or broken branches; brushwood. bushes and low trees growing in thick profusion, especially close to the ground. Also called brushland. land or an area covered with thickly growing bushes and low trees. backwoods; a sparsely settled wooded region. covered or […]
- Brushland
brush2 (def 4).
- Brushless
requiring no brush to use or apply: brushless shaving cream. clear or cleared of brush: a brushless plain. Contemporary Examples My Great Fake Bake Experiment Daniel Nester January 5, 2009 Historical Examples The Biography of a Grizzly Ernest Seton-Thompson Sheila of Big Wreck Cove James A. Cooper