braky
- adjective
- Archaic
- The path wound through a dense, braky forest that scratched at our legs.
Examples
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The hikers struggled to make their way through the braky hillside.
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After years of neglect, the garden had become utterly braky and wild.
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The braky land was difficult to walk through.
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They found a brakier path through the woods.
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The hikers struggled to make their way through the braky hillside.
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After years of neglect, the garden had become utterly braky and wild.
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The path wound through a dense, braky forest that scratched at our legs.
Synonyms
1
3.8
Covered with many low bushes or thick plants
1
7.6
Covered with many thorny bushes that are hard to walk through
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7.2
Covered with many long thin green plants that have divided leaves
1
9.9
Covered with trees and bushes
1
5.5
Covered with thick bushes or small trees
1
9.2
Full of thorny plants that can prick you
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6.1
Plants or trees that grow very close together and form a crowded group
How Overgrown
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word braky comes from brake, an old name for a fern or a thick wild bush, like 'bracken' or 'bramble'. So land that is braky is covered with that rough undergrowth and is hard to walk through.