thicket
pronunciation
How to pronounce thicket in British English:
UK [ˈθɪkɪt]
How to pronounce thicket in American English:
US [ˈθɪkɪt]
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- Noun:
- a dense growth of bushes
Word Origin
- thicket (n.)
- "close-set growth of shrubs, bushes, trees, etc.," late Old English þiccet, from þicce (see thick) + denominative suffix -et. Absent in Middle English, reappearing early 16c., perhaps a dialectal survival or a re-formation.
Example
- 1. The russian legal code is a thicket of often contradictory rules and responsibilities .
- 2. It takes a lot of pinging back and forth in a thicket of carbon atoms to find an exit .
- 3. We stared at each other at a metre 's distance until she disappeared into the thicket .
- 4. Even if you grant that the singularity is plausible , you 're still staring at a thicket of unanswerable questions .
- 5. From this thin reed of fact came a thicket of online rumours that mr wang had fled to the consulate to seek asylum .