fuz'-bush

Updated: May 26, 2025

Indeed, they tried to make her believe that the enchanted steed was only the miller's old white horse, that the demon huntsman and his hounds were no more nor less than her own son John riding across the moor with the dogs, in search of her, that her lost eye must have been scratched out by a 'fuz'-bush; and so they went on pooh-poohing the whole of her story, which was very nearly the most aggravating thing of all she had had to bear.

Mabel Quiller-Couch - Cornwall's Wonderland