Lexicographical Neighbors of Browsy
Literary usage of Browsy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"WWS] browsy. Full of browse, brushwood. ... The knotty mossy bodies and browsy
heads of oaks.'—Modern Husbandman, VII. i. 12. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1859)
"browsy.—In the Midland Counties this word is applied to anyone who looks showy.
“She'd her best shawl on, and new ribbons to her bonnet, and her looked ..."
3. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1879)
"197. [Hence the verb to browse is derived.—WWS] browsy. Full of browse, brushwood.
' The knotty mossy bodies and browsy heads of oaks. ..."
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