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Etymology

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FromMiddle English*thikket, fromOld Englishþiccet, fromþicce(“thick”) +Old English nominal suffix-et. Compare similarGermanDickicht(“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however.

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Noun

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thicket (pluralthickets)

  1. Adense, but generallysmall,growth ofshrubs,bushes or smalltrees; acopse.
    • 1891,Oscar Wilde, chapter 18, inThe Picture of Dorian Gray:
      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 athicket of alders.
  2. (figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
    He had to complete athicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.
    • 2013 July 19,Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 6, page18:
      Hidden behindthickets 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.
  3. (computing, figuratively) Thecollection of many small linkedfiles created when adocument is saved inHTML format by someword processors andweb site creationsoftware.

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copse
A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
collection of many small linked files

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