different between bushy vs gushy

English

Etymology

bush +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??i/
• Rhymes: -??i

Adjective

bushy (comparative bushier, superlative bushiest)

1. Like a bush in having many widely spread branches.

   the bushy tail of a squirrel

2. Growing thickly.
3. (Racial slur) Derogatory word used to refer to Afro-textured Hair.

Derived terms

• bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

Translations

Anagrams

• Husby

English

Etymology

gush +? -y

Adjective

gushy (comparative gushier, superlative gushiest)

1. Gushing; effusive and often emotional.
2. (uncommon) Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid.
   • 1994, Houghton Mifflin Company, Insight, Insight Guides, Insight Guide Hawaii, Insight Guides (?ISBN)

     Spouting water: Early Hawaiians named this l l/2-mile strip of coast Waikiki, or “spouting water,” its inland part a swamp nurtured by descending mountain streams and gushy spring waters. As early as the 1400s, Hawaiians utilized this water ...

   • 2007, Rechella, Players Got Played, Kensington Books (?ISBN), page 112:

     Off with my beige bikini set, then he parted my legs and went straight for for the gushy pussy and gushy it was. I was seeping like a loose faucet.

   • 2015, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 1, Sri Sathya Sai Sadhana Trust, Publications Division (?ISBN):

     Just as underground water wells up in a gushy spring, when a bore is sunk down to that depth, […]

Related terms

• gushiness
• gushily (adverb)

References

• Merriam-Webster Online