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brambly

[bram-blee]

bram·bly

[bram-blee]
adjective, -bli·er, -bli·est.
having or resembling brambles.

Origin:
1575–85; bramble + -y1
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Brambly is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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bramble (ˈbræmbəl)
 
n
1.  See also stone bramble any of various prickly herbaceous plants or shrubs of the rosaceous genus Rubus, esp the blackberry
2.  (Scot)
 a.  a blackberry
 b.  (as modifier): bramble jelly
3.  any of several similar and related shrubs
 
vb
4.  to gather blackberries
 
[Old English brǣmbel; related to Old Saxon brāmal, Old High German brāmo]
 
'brambly
 
adj

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