Furze vs Fuze - What's the difference?
furze | fuze |
A thorny evergreen shrub (), with yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland.
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
*1922, (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, p.93:
*:Clumps of withered grass stood out on the hill-top; the furze bushes were black, and now and then a black shiver crossed the snow as the wind drove flurries of frozen particles before it.
