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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

가시덤불

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gasi-deombul

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bramble/ˈbræm.bəl/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14250 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"산책로는 빽빽한 가시덤불로 둘러싸여 있었습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A rough, tangled prickly shrub, especially the wild blackberry.

    "The path was overgrown with thick brambles that caught at his jacket."
  2. 2

    The prickly stem or branch of such a shrub.

    "She avoided the sharp brambles while picking the ripest berries."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English bræmbel, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bræmbilaz, meaning prickly shrub. Historically used to describe wild thorny bushes like blackberries, it has evolved to metaphorically represent obstacles or entangled difficulties.

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