Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Ivy-bush
subs. (old).—See quot.
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1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. IVY-BUSH. Like an owl in an IVY BUSH, a simile for a meagre, or weazle-faced man, with a large wig, or very bushy hair.
