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Thicket
//ˈθɪkɪt// noun
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Noun
- 1 A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
"Suddenly from a lumpy tussock of old grass some twenty yards in front of them, with black-tipped ears erect and long hinder limbs throwing it forward, started a hare. It bolted for a thicket of alders."
- 2 a dense growth of bushes wordnet
- 3 A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract. figuratively
"He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company."
- 4 The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software. figuratively
Etymology
From Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht (“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however. Compare typologically Bulgarian гъстак (gǎstak), Macedonian густеж (gustež), Czech houští, Polish gęstwina (< Proto-Slavic *gǫstъ); Latin dūmus (akin to dense).
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