different between firewood vs brushwood

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fa?.?(?).w?d/
• (Upper RP Triphthong Smoothing) IPA^(key): /?fa.?(?).w?d/, /?fa?(?).w?d/, /?f?.?(?).w?d/, /?f?.??(?).w?d/
• (General American) enPR: f???rwo?od, f?r, IPA^(key): /?fa?.?.w?d/, [?fa?.?.w?d]
• (Southern American English, Appalachia) IPA^(key): [?fä?.?.w?d]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?f?e.?(?).w?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology

From Middle English ferwode, fyrewoode, equivalent to fire +? wood.

Noun

firewood (countable and uncountable, plural firewoods)

1. Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.

   After many days of hard work, we finally had enough firewood for the winter.

Descendants

• Chinese Pidgin English: firewood, ??????

Translations

Anagrams

• woodfire

Chinese Pidgin English

Alternative forms

• ?????? (Chinese characters)

Etymology

From English firewood.

Noun

firewood

1. firewood

English

Etymology

brush +? wood

Noun

brushwood (countable and uncountable, plural brushwoods)

1. Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs.
   • 1991, Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons, Oxford University Press, Chapter 3, p. 14,

     Small streams with hollowed-out banks came into sight, and the tiniest mill-ponds with frail dams, and little villages with low peasant huts under dark roofs, often with half their thatch gone, and small threshing barns all tilted to one side with walls made out of woven brushwood and gaping openings beside dilabidated hay-barns […]

2. Small trees and shrubs.
   • 1920, R. B. Cunninghame Graham, A Brazilian Mystic, Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro, London: Heinemann, Chapter 12, p. 169, [2]

     Houses had been deserted, and the thick brushwood of the tropics had grown up over everything, obliterating the brief authority of man.

Translations

References

• OED2

Anagrams

• shrubwood