Noun: thicket
| Singular | thicket |
| Plural | thickets |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 18, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:]
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He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.
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Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements. [2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:]
Nouns inflected like thicket
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited 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.
2. Compare typologically Bulgarian гъстак (găstak), Macedonian густеж (gustež), Czech houští, Polish gęstwina (< *gǫstъ); Latin dūmus (akin to Latin dense). See: Middle English Nouns '
*thikket', Middle English Nouns '
*thikket', Old English Nouns '
þiccet', German Nouns '
Dickicht', Bulgarian Nouns '
гъстак', Czech Nouns '
houští', Polish Nouns '
gęstwina', Latin Nouns '
dūmus', Latin Nouns '
dense'.