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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   As much as a bush holds.

   "What caused the breaking of that twig? — what the low, alarmed twittering in that bushful of birds?"

Example

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"What caused the breaking of that twig? — what the low, alarmed twittering in that bushful of birds?"

Etymology

From bush + -ful.

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