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brambly

brambly adjective: covered in brambles.

Adjective

brambly (comparative bramblier, superlative brambliest)

  1. Covered in brambles
  2. Rough; harsh or grating.
    • December 2004, "500 Greatest Songs of All Time - Bob Dylan, 'Blowin' in the Wind'", in The Rolling Stone
      everyone knew the song belonged to the burning-eyed young man who ruled New York's folk scene, and whose recording of it — just his brambly voice and fleet-fingered acoustic-guitar playing — was...

Forms of brambly

comparativebramblier
superlativebrambliest

Origin of brambly

From bramble + -y.

Questions about brambly

What does brambly mean?
Brambly means covered in brambles.
What part of speech is brambly?
Brambly is an adjective.

Words near brambly in the dictionary

  1. brambliest
  2. brambling
  3. brambling finch
  4. brambling finches
  5. bramblings
  6. brambly
  7. brambrack
  8. brambracks
  9. Bramcote
  10. brame
  11. Bramel

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