thicket

Meaning

Noun

• A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
• A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
• The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.

Origin

• From Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht, which is first attested in the 17th century, however.