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
Covered with many low bushes or thick plants
Covered with many thorny bushes that are hard to walk through
Full of thorny plants that can prick you
Covered with many long thin green plants that have divided leaves
Covered with thick bushes or small trees
Covered with trees and bushes
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.