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bushy-tailed

[boosh-ee-teyld] / ˈbʊʃ iˌteɪld /






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While some of us may be going into 2024 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, Trump’s legal team seems to have spent the first week of the new year hunkered down with court filings.

From Slate Jan. 8, 2024

But just moments before he faded away, a bushy-tailed Swift Fox no bigger than a house cat swiped him up and gobbled him.

From Scientific American Sep. 29, 2023

It changed my life, and I’m so relieved that the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed kid was compelled enough to pick it up and judge it by its cover.

From Los Angeles Times May 17, 2023

Sure, you can get carrots all year, but young, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed carrots are a warm-weather specialty.

From Salon Mar. 20, 2022

Charades at least might go over well, as long as the tableaux did not involve any reference to small, bushy-tailed animals that stored nuts in their cheeks.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood




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