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BUSHIEST

8 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

BUSHIEST is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

BUSHIEST root BUSH-iest

Word family

BUSH 1 BUSHES-es 3 BUSHING-ing 5 BUSHED-ed 3
noun
  1. A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
  2. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
    • bushes to support pea vines
  3. archaicdialectalA thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land.
  4. historicalA shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
  5. slangvulgarA person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
  6. The tail, or brush, of a fox.
  7. archaicA tavern or wine merchant.
  8. AustraliaCanadacountableoftenuncountableTracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.
  9. AustraliaCanadacountableoftenuncountableThe countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
  10. AustraliaCanadacountableoftenuncountableAn area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
  11. AustraliaCanadacountableoftenuncountableThe wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
  12. CanadacountableuncountableA wood lot or bluff on a farm.
  13. Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
  14. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
  15. A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
  16. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
  2. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
    • to bush peas
  3. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
    • to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground
  4. To become bushy (often used with up).
    • I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.
  5. transitiveTo furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
    • to bush a pivot hole
adverb
  1. AustraliaTowards the direction of the outback.
    • On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
adjective
  1. colloquialNot skilled; not professional; not major league.
    • They’re supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.