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Definition of Brambly
1. Adjective. Covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth.
Definition of Brambly
1. a. Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles.
Definition of Brambly
1. Adjective. Covered in brambles ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brambly
1. prickly [adj -BLIER, -BLIEST] - See also: prickly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brambly
Literary usage of Brambly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The origin and history of Irish names of places by Patrick Weston Joyce (1875)
"The river Drish (brambly river) joins the Suir near Thurles. ... which are also
applied in the same sense as the preceding—to a brambly place. ..."
2. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell: With Illustrations by James Russell Lowell (1891)
"He WHS a stoutish man, and through the breast Of his loose shirt there showed a
brambly chest ; Streaked redly as a wind-foreboding closely shorn ..."
3. Positions by Richard Mulcaster, Robert Hebert Quick (1888)
"... and brambly, or in sandie and soft. If ye walke in a medow, it is without all
contradiction most for pleasure, ... Rough, brambly, and bushy ..."
4. Vista (1921)
"Above, the leafy mountain: Below, a brambly dell, And growing up between us A
single immortelle. II. Wild, white! It lasts forever! ..."
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