Brush, bush or bushes?

[2LaneCruzer]

Now I know what all those wooden handled hairy things are floating down Brushy Creek. Has anyone mentioned thicket yet? Isn't a thicket to bushes as woods is to trees? A plum thicket is a gathering of plum bushes, isn't it? How about a green briar patch? Remember 'ol Br'er Rabbit sayin' to Br'er Fox, "Please! Don't throw me in that briar patch."

2LC, I'd heard of shin oak, but when I looked it up, it seems that shinnery oak is similar and is mostly in reference to scrub oak growth. My aunt used to refer to the area where I live as "little Jack." I thought it was because we were close to Jacksboro, TX, but she explained that this area has a lot of small blackjack oak trees that didn't grow much over 20' tall. Thus, this area was called little Jack in reference to those trees.

And then there's the Tulies...

 

[Larro Darro]

No matter what they were called before, {limbs, branches, saplings, bushes or tops} when piled together, it is a brush pile. Until you burn it. Then it's just ashes.

 

[Bird]

Until the Fall of 2002, I lived in Brushy Prairie, TX, but the mailing address was Frost, TX, a little town 12 miles north of us. And we had a brushy creek, but not by that name.

 

[jinman]

Bird, just down the road from me is Brushy Creek Vineyard. They are nothing about brush piles, but what they sell will turn your brain to mush. . . which rhymes with brush.:confused2:

 

[Western]

Makes you wonder how they came up with.."brush" your teeth, hair "brush"?? I guess "bush" your teeth or hairbush just wasn't effective:laughing:

 

[Bird]

I don't know how they came up with a lot of our words; some that are the "true" name and some that are "nicknames?". When I lived in the Brushy Prairie area, I was about a quarter mile from a creek that ran into Navarro Mills Lake. If you find a map of that lake, it has that creek labeled as "Harris Branch", but I'll bet if you asked around down there where "Harris Branch" is, you couldn't find anyone who knows. But if you asked where "Snake Creek" is, they all know exactly what you mean. And Snake Creek was not so named because of any reptilian critters; it's called that because it wanders, turns, and twists so much.

 

[Marveltone]

While winging his way over the wilderness, the backwoods bush pilot had a brush with death when he ditched his plane in the tulies. He scampered through the thicket 'till he got caught up in the briar patch, spied a hedge row of shinnery bordering the hinterland. He stomped through the scrub, bumbled through the bramble and boscage and wallowed through the weeds and finally escaped the shrubbery. That was the last time he flew over the outback.

I'll go back to my corner now.

Joe

 

[ArtMech]

:confused2::confused2:
I thought bush is a rubberized insert of vehicle suspension...

 

[jinman]

Very nice Joe! I think you're grasping at straws. . .but not the kind they give you at Dairy Queen.

 

[bcp]

Until the Fall of 2002, I lived in Brushy Prairie, TX, but the mailing address was Frost, TX, a little town 12 miles north of us. And we had a brushy creek, but not by that name.

And a Brush Prairie, WA, just south of Battle Ground.

https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=brush+prairie+wa&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x5495b1636311b807:0x289f71f5c8e4b52,Brush+Prairie,+WA&gl=us&ei=xVgjUonnFeOZiQLrmIG4Bg&ved=0CIMBELYD