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Origin of rushy
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at rush 2, -y 1
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"It's almost a religion for me," he says, citing "the rushy, on-edge feeling anything can happen at any moment."
From Time Magazine Archive
Presently as he crossed a wet, rushy flat, one of the loneliest parts of the way, he saw the lights of a vehicle coming towards him.
From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman
A rushy glade before us was dotted all over with them; their pied breasts surmounted nearly every bush.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
Bloom down-cheeked peaches, Wild free-born cranberries, Pineapples, strawberries, All ripe together In summer weather. are hardly the produce of the rushy glen where the leering goblin merchants tramped and whisked up and down.
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
In Branksome Hall, when the feast was over,— 'The stag-hounds, weary with the chase, Lay stretched upon the rushy floor, And urged, in dreams, the forest race From Teviot-stone to Eskdale-moor.'
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
The Little Loch was the rushiest and reediest little rascal that ever rustled, and he was on the very edge of the Moor.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
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