furze

[furz] Origin

furze

[furz]
noun
Also called, especially British, whin.


Origin:
before 1000; Middle English furse, firse, Old English fyr(e)s; akin to Russian pyréĭ couch grass, Greek pȳrós wheat, Lithuanian dialect pūraĩ winter wheat
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Furze is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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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furze (fɜːz)
 
n
another name for gorse
 
[Old English fyrs]
 
'furzy
 
adj

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furze
"evergreen shrub," O.E. fyrs, of unknown origin, with no known connections.
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