rushyadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈrʌʃi/, U.S.

/ˈrəʃi/

Forms: see rush n.¹ and -y suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rush n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < rush n.¹ + -y suffix¹.Earlier currency (in sense 3) is perhaps shown by the following:OE Bounds (Sawyer 879) in P. H. Sawyer Charters of Burton Abbey (1979) 43 Swa forð andlangas þæs broces forð hit cymð to hryxies mæne weig.The word hryxies probably represents the genitive of either risc-īeg ‘rush-island’ or riscig-īeg ‘rushy island’. Compare also Old English risciht full of or covered with rushes ( < rush n.¹ + the parallel Old English suffix -iht : see discussion at -y suffix¹).

a. Made or consisting of rushes. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [adjective] > made of rushes

rushenOE

rushya1382

matted1570

rushed1759

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xviii. 2 Wo to the lond..that sendeth in the se messageres, and in resshi [a1425 L.V. of papirus; L. papyri] vesseles vp on watris.

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 35^v Iunntteus [perh. read Iuncteus], russhi.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. 494 (MED) A multitude of reysouns puld they take, And into russhy [v.r. risshy; L. iunco factis] frayels rare hem gete.

1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. i. 19 His Spring should [not]..driue the Rushy-mils, that in his way The Shepheards made.

1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick xxii. 150 They strain all through rushy baskets, or withie bags.

1732 J. Swift Pastoral Dialogue in Misc. III. i. 36 Sharp are the Stones, take thou this rushy Matt.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. viii. 71 Then turn to-night, and freely share..My rushy couch and frugal fare.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 131 I..bound my posies up with rushy ties.

1842 F. E. Paget Milford Malvoisin 94 She laid her head on her rushy pillow.

1875 A. Cambridge Manor House & Other Poems 229 Ripples from a black swan's breast, darting from out its rushy nest.

1901 S. O'Grady In Gates of North v. 44 The host was preparing the booths of the chieftains and their rushy beds.

†b. figurative. Weak, insubstantial. Also: imprecisely defined. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > slight > slight or insubstantial

leanc1325

light1534

rushy1579

slight1585

smattering1589

exile1610

unmassy1665

insubstantial1767

flimsy1780

tenuousa1817

unsubstantial1825

gaseous1846

slimline1973

lite1986

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 121 Beside this rushie cheine of M. Heskins necessitie you shall heare matter of congruitie.

a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 362 Surely this rushie religion..will but help to make more fuell for those eternal flames.

1659 C. Noble Moderate Answer To Rdr. These rushy and sedgy expressions that are set down in this Paper.

1888 J. Davidson Smith i. 19 His passion tore A ragged way through wordy wildernesses, Or spread, where image failed, in shallows vague, The margin lost in rushy verbiage.

2. Resembling or characteristic of a rush or rushes; rush-like. Also in the names of plants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [adjective] > resembling an aquatic grass

rushy1547

flaggy1577

rush-like1578

spratty1808

1547 in J. M. Bestall & D. V. Fowkes Chesterfield Wills & Inventories 1521–1603 (1977) 248 One wayne lode of course Russhie haye.

1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 11 Rushie Water grasse hath his rootes..with many fibres or strings hanging at them.

a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 145 The snaky Dun, the Ore with rushy Haire.

1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. iv. 170 The former was of that Rushy plant.

1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 6 An extensive tract of marshy meadow, with some good and much rushy grass.

1849 Mag. Hort. Dec. 558 It is the Buonapartia Juncea,..a flower well known in botanical collections, by its stiff rushy habit.

1887 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Dec. 12/1 Near Gibraltar a species of Narcissus is found which has rushy leaves, and jonquil-like flowers as ‘green as grass’.

1902 J. F. Robinson Flora E. Riding Yorks. 217 A[gropyron] junceum... (Rushy Wheat-grass)... Common on the coast sand-hills at Horsea.

1999 S. E. Nicolson in W. M. Adams et al. Physical Geogr. Afr. 70 A periodical stream running through a vast plain of rushy grasses, swamps, springs, and periodical rivers.

3. Full of or covered with rushes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [adjective] > having or full of

reedy1307

flaggy1382

reedena1387

sedgy1566

rushy1567

saggy1609

secky1610

cany1667

seavy1684

bentya1700

juncous1755

rushed1759

rush-grown1765

spritty1786

spratty1808

reeded1821

sedged1866

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 84 Peneus and Sperchius streames contributarie were, And so were Boebes rushie bankes of such as growed there.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxxxvi. 25 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 230 [God] cutt in two the russhy sea,..And made the middest Iacobs way.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 84 By paued fountaine, or by rushie brooke.

?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse i. sig. C3 Sit Downe on this rushy bancke.

a1683 W. Scroggs Pract. Courts-leet (1714) 210 Whereby the Land is overflowed, so that it becomes rushy and unprofitable.

c1750 W. Shenstone Ode to Sir R. Lyttelton 20 Where coots in rushy dingles hide.

1794 W. Cowper Needless Alarm 9 A narrow brook, by rushy banks conceal'd.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 952 Coarse rushy lands may..be converted into good pastures.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. vii. 101 Bursting through the rotting and half-fallen palings, we entered a wide, rushy, neglected park.

1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. 141 All the land except the combes was a great furzy and rushy waste.

1922 National Geographic May 486/1 The river winds its narrow, tortuous course between long, level meadows or rushy banks.

1980 M. Shoard Theft of Countryside ii. iii. 40 Only walking uncovers the wealth of surprises that lie hidden behind the shaws and close-spread coppices: hundreds of ponds, little rivers, rushy fields thick with orchids.

2005 Philadelpha Nov. 173/2 The rushy glens along the west bank of the Schuylkill.

Compounds

C1. Parasynthetic, as rushy-fringed, rushy-leaved, rushy-margined.

ΚΠ

1637 J. Milton Comus 30 By the rushie fringed banke, Where growes the willow and the osier dancke.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Narcissus The smallest, white, mountain, rushy-leaved narcissus.

1786 J. Abercrombie Arrangem. Plants 26 in Gardeners Daily Assistant Broom,..Rushy twigged, or Spanish.

1890 Spectator 7 June A particular roadside, along which there was a rushy-margined pool.

†C2.

rushy labyrinth n. [after Hellenistic Greek ἐκ σχοίνων λαβύρινθος (Theocritus)] Obsolete rare a bow net made of rushes.

ΚΠ

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus ii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 109 The rushey labyrinths of Theocritus.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rushyadj.²

Brit.

/ˈrʌʃi/, U.S.

/ˈrəʃi/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rush n.², -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < rush n.² + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier rushed adj.²

Rushed, hurried; quick. Also as adv.: in a rush, hurriedly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adverb] > hastily or hurriedly

hyinglya1225

rapelya1300

a-rapec1300

frowc1325

batand1330

raplya1375

rapec1380

batauntly1393

untoomlyc1540

snatchingly1552

hastily1590

festinately1598

postingly1610

postwise1744

hastefully1813

hurriedly1816

rush1853

rushy1908

the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] > acting with haste > hasty or hurried

hastivea1325

raplyc1390

runninga1400

rapec1410

precipitate1545

hasty1560

abrupt1576

festinate1598

breathless1606

hasteful1610

precipitatedc1625

arreptitious1653

hurried1667

prerupt1727

hurry-scurry1732

rush1879

rushed1888

scampered1894

rush-round1903

rushy1976

drive-by1992

1908 H. G. Wells War in Air iv. 153 Too soon, Bert my boy—too soon and too rushy.

1976 ‘W. Trevor’ Children of Dynmouth i. 34 It was all half joking, all quick and rushy, his mother laughing her shrill staccato laugh, Rose-Ann laughing also, neither of them listening to him.

2005 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 29 Oct. 13 By day two I was remembering to always stand on the right of an escalator so those rushy London types can charge up the outside lane.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rushy
释义	rushyadj.¹ Brit. /ˈrʌʃi/, U.S. /ˈrəʃi/ Forms: see rush n.¹ and -y suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rush n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < rush n.¹ + -y suffix¹.Earlier currency (in sense 3) is perhaps shown by the following:OE Bounds (Sawyer 879) in P. H. Sawyer Charters of Burton Abbey (1979) 43 Swa forð andlangas þæs broces forð hit cymð to hryxies mæne weig.The word hryxies probably represents the genitive of either risc-īeg ‘rush-island’ or riscig-īeg ‘rushy island’. Compare also Old English risciht full of or covered with rushes ( < rush n.¹ + the parallel Old English suffix -iht : see discussion at -y suffix¹). 1. a. Made or consisting of rushes. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [adjective] > made of rushes rushenOE rushya1382 matted1570 rushed1759 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xviii. 2 Wo to the lond..that sendeth in the se messageres, and in resshi [a1425 L.V. of papirus; L. papyri] vesseles vp on watris. a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 35^v Iunntteus [perh. read Iuncteus], russhi. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. 494 (MED) A multitude of reysouns puld they take, And into russhy [v.r. risshy; L. iunco factis] frayels rare hem gete. 1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. i. 19 His Spring should [not]..driue the Rushy-mils, that in his way The Shepheards made. 1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick xxii. 150 They strain all through rushy baskets, or withie bags. 1732 J. Swift Pastoral Dialogue in Misc. III. i. 36 Sharp are the Stones, take thou this rushy Matt. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. viii. 71 Then turn to-night, and freely share..My rushy couch and frugal fare. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 131 I..bound my posies up with rushy ties. 1842 F. E. Paget Milford Malvoisin 94 She laid her head on her rushy pillow. 1875 A. Cambridge Manor House & Other Poems 229 Ripples from a black swan's breast, darting from out its rushy nest. 1901 S. O'Grady In Gates of North v. 44 The host was preparing the booths of the chieftains and their rushy beds. †b. figurative. Weak, insubstantial. Also: imprecisely defined. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > slight > slight or insubstantial leanc1325 light1534 rushy1579 slight1585 smattering1589 exile1610 unmassy1665 insubstantial1767 flimsy1780 tenuousa1817 unsubstantial1825 gaseous1846 slimline1973 lite1986 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 121 Beside this rushie cheine of M. Heskins necessitie you shall heare matter of congruitie. a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 362 Surely this rushie religion..will but help to make more fuell for those eternal flames. 1659 C. Noble Moderate Answer To Rdr. These rushy and sedgy expressions that are set down in this Paper. 1888 J. Davidson Smith i. 19 His passion tore A ragged way through wordy wildernesses, Or spread, where image failed, in shallows vague, The margin lost in rushy verbiage. 2. Resembling or characteristic of a rush or rushes; rush-like. Also in the names of plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [adjective] > resembling an aquatic grass rushy1547 flaggy1577 rush-like1578 spratty1808 1547 in J. M. Bestall & D. V. Fowkes Chesterfield Wills & Inventories 1521–1603 (1977) 248 One wayne lode of course Russhie haye. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 11 Rushie Water grasse hath his rootes..with many fibres or strings hanging at them. a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 145 The snaky Dun, the Ore with rushy Haire. 1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. iv. 170 The former was of that Rushy plant. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 6 An extensive tract of marshy meadow, with some good and much rushy grass. 1849 Mag. Hort. Dec. 558 It is the Buonapartia Juncea,..a flower well known in botanical collections, by its stiff rushy habit. 1887 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Dec. 12/1 Near Gibraltar a species of Narcissus is found which has rushy leaves, and jonquil-like flowers as ‘green as grass’. 1902 J. F. Robinson Flora E. Riding Yorks. 217 A[gropyron] junceum... (Rushy Wheat-grass)... Common on the coast sand-hills at Horsea. 1999 S. E. Nicolson in W. M. Adams et al. Physical Geogr. Afr. 70 A periodical stream running through a vast plain of rushy grasses, swamps, springs, and periodical rivers. 3. Full of or covered with rushes. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [adjective] > having or full of reedy1307 flaggy1382 reedena1387 sedgy1566 rushy1567 saggy1609 secky1610 cany1667 seavy1684 bentya1700 juncous1755 rushed1759 rush-grown1765 spritty1786 spratty1808 reeded1821 sedged1866 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 84 Peneus and Sperchius streames contributarie were, And so were Boebes rushie bankes of such as growed there. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxxxvi. 25 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 230 [God] cutt in two the russhy sea,..And made the middest Iacobs way. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 84 By paued fountaine, or by rushie brooke. View more context for this quotation ?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse i. sig. C3 Sit Downe on this rushy bancke. a1683 W. Scroggs Pract. Courts-leet (1714) 210 Whereby the Land is overflowed, so that it becomes rushy and unprofitable. c1750 W. Shenstone Ode to Sir R. Lyttelton 20 Where coots in rushy dingles hide. 1794 W. Cowper Needless Alarm 9 A narrow brook, by rushy banks conceal'd. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 952 Coarse rushy lands may..be converted into good pastures. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. vii. 101 Bursting through the rotting and half-fallen palings, we entered a wide, rushy, neglected park. 1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. 141 All the land except the combes was a great furzy and rushy waste. 1922 National Geographic May 486/1 The river winds its narrow, tortuous course between long, level meadows or rushy banks. 1980 M. Shoard Theft of Countryside ii. iii. 40 Only walking uncovers the wealth of surprises that lie hidden behind the shaws and close-spread coppices: hundreds of ponds, little rivers, rushy fields thick with orchids. 2005 Philadelpha Nov. 173/2 The rushy glens along the west bank of the Schuylkill. Compounds C1. Parasynthetic, as rushy-fringed, rushy-leaved, rushy-margined. ΚΠ 1637 J. Milton Comus 30 By the rushie fringed banke, Where growes the willow and the osier dancke. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Narcissus The smallest, white, mountain, rushy-leaved narcissus. 1786 J. Abercrombie Arrangem. Plants 26 in Gardeners Daily Assistant Broom,..Rushy twigged, or Spanish. 1890 Spectator 7 June A particular roadside, along which there was a rushy-margined pool. †C2. rushy labyrinth n. [after Hellenistic Greek ἐκ σχοίνων λαβύρινθος (Theocritus)] Obsolete rare a bow net made of rushes. ΚΠ 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus ii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 109 The rushey labyrinths of Theocritus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rushyadj.² Brit. /ˈrʌʃi/, U.S. /ˈrəʃi/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rush n.², -y suffix¹. Etymology: < rush n.² + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier rushed adj.² Rushed, hurried; quick. Also as adv.: in a rush, hurriedly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adverb] > hastily or hurriedly hyinglya1225 rapelya1300 a-rapec1300 frowc1325 batand1330 raplya1375 rapec1380 batauntly1393 untoomlyc1540 snatchingly1552 hastily1590 festinately1598 postingly1610 postwise1744 hastefully1813 hurriedly1816 rush1853 rushy1908 the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] > acting with haste > hasty or hurried hastivea1325 raplyc1390 runninga1400 rapec1410 precipitate1545 hasty1560 abrupt1576 festinate1598 breathless1606 hasteful1610 precipitatedc1625 arreptitious1653 hurried1667 prerupt1727 hurry-scurry1732 rush1879 rushed1888 scampered1894 rush-round1903 rushy1976 drive-by1992 1908 H. G. Wells War in Air iv. 153 Too soon, Bert my boy—too soon and too rushy. 1976 ‘W. Trevor’ Children of Dynmouth i. 34 It was all half joking, all quick and rushy, his mother laughing her shrill staccato laugh, Rose-Ann laughing also, neither of them listening to him. 2005 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 29 Oct. 13 By day two I was remembering to always stand on the right of an escalator so those rushy London types can charge up the outside lane. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹a1382adj.²1908
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rushyadj.1

Compounds

rushyadj.2

rushyadj.¹

rushyadj.²