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Furzen vs Furze - What's the difference?

furzen | furze |

As nouns the difference between furzen and furze

is that furzen is while furze is .

furzen

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) furzy; gorsy
  • (Holland)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    furze

    English

    (wikipedia furze)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thorny evergreen shrub (), with yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland.
  • *
  • *:“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.
  • Synonyms

    * gorse, whin

    Derived terms

    * (dwarf furze) ()