Citations:cactused

Adjective: "featuring a cactus or cacti"

 * 1901, Margaret Sealy, "The Alamo", in A Cluster of Marguerites: Poems, The Abbey Press (1901), page 54:
 * And the streets with narrow windings overhung with China trees,
 * Seem to frame the cactused gardens and the ivy covered eaves.
 * 1920, Edward J. Thompson, "Flowertide in Galilee", The Spectator, 9 April 1920:
 * And there was the place of Junot's sensational victory, a jungle of cactus now, as then. Beit Lidd, where the Seaforths were flung at cactussed terraces, in Allenby's great sweep northward, was just such another hill.
 * 1940, Rose Macauley, And No Man's Wit, Little, Brown and Company (1940), page 20:
 * When they got out on to the open road, it ran, deep in gray dust, through a tawny landscape, a dry, cactused wilderness, with thin olive groves, and now and then a clump of palm trees or wild figs; the plains of Aragon.
 * 1954, Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning, New Directions Publishing (1981), ISBN 9780811202084, page 10:
 * I could not imagine Cadwallader Davies the grocer, in his near-to-waking dream, riding on horseback, two-gunned and Cody-bold, through the cactused prairies.
 * 1970, William Eastlake, Three by Eastlake, Simon & Schuster (1970), page 373:
 * Big Sant would have liked to chase in the direction of home, the Circle Heart, seventeen miles west, but the great monarch fell in huge circles from cactussed hill to tamarisk.
 * 1977, Jack Couffer & Mike Couffer, Canyon Summer, Putnam (1977), ISBN 9780399205859, page 13:
 * On top it's a dry cactused area inhabited by typical upper desert creatures such as kangaroo rats and collared lizards.
 * 1984, Quincy Troupe, "Las Cruces, New Mexico", in Skulls Along the River, I. Reed Books (1984), ISBN 9780918408228, page 99:
 * howling & yapping across the cactused, dry high vistas
 * kicking up skirts of red dirt at the rear end of quiet houses
 * 1985, Alexei Tolstoi, Aelita, or, The Decline of Mars, Ardis (1985), ISBN 9780882337883, page 60:
 * But then from behind the dark and precise line of the horizon appeared a bright sickle, smaller than the earth's moon, which rose over the cactused plain.
 * 1991, Melinda Worth Popham, Skywater, Ballantine Books (1991), ISBN 9780345371508, page 65:
 * As the last, dusky remnants of the sunset finally conceded to the encroachment of night, a seagoing pilgrimage set forth from the cactused desert of the Kofa Mountains.
 * 2001, Linda Bidabe (with Chris Voll), No Ordinary Move, Plough Publishing House (2001), ISBN 9780874869156, page 175:
 * It takes me a long time to find the place, far out in yucca-stalked and cactused wilderness.
 * 2001, Stewart David Ikeda, "Mixing Stories", in Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans (ed. Erica Harth), Palgrave Macmillan (2003), ISBN 1403962308, page 81:
 * Useless, except to make a mark: standing here, amidst the endless expanse of cactused nothingness, of dull, red-brown sameness, one can say at least, "I don't know where I'm standing, but I am standing somewhere."
 * 2004, Alfred Brown, "Episode 1: Hulls Cracked Our Cracking", The Nassau Literary Review, Spring 2004, page 71:
 * We stumbled over months and onto one-lane roads, following some sort of beaten path my toddler eyes never saw, deserted and cactussed and slimy McDonalds wrapped up in the night.
 * 2008, Bill Hunger, Hiking Wyoming: 110 of the State's Best Hiking Adventures, Falcon Guides (2008), ISBN 9780762734207, page 20:
 * Ponderosa forests, open meadows, cactused badlands, and river-carved sedimentary layers make appearances.

Adjective: "(Australian, slang) broken; ruined; no longer working, more recently esp. related to a technical system

 * 1986, Daryl Guppy, "Some Days Are Rocks", in A Bundle of Yarns (ed. Michael Kavanagh); quoted in Susan Butler, The Dinkum Dictionary, The Text Publishing Company (2009), ISBN 9781921351983, page 66:
 * His high spirits descended temporarily. 'It took me thirty minutes to get her going again. The lift pump is cactused.'
 * 2013, Amanda King, "Teaching bike skills in the APY lands", Cycle!, Number 157, February-April 2013, page 12:
 * Maintenance has never been my favorite pursuit, and many of these repairs were complex and demanding, often requiring pulling parts off a cactused bike, and refitting them to a salvageable one.
 * 2013, Amanda King, "Teaching bike skills in the APY lands", Cycle!, Number 157, February-April 2013, page 12:
 * Maintenance has never been my favorite pursuit, and many of these repairs were complex and demanding, often requiring pulling parts off a cactused bike, and refitting them to a salvageable one.
 * 2013, Amanda King, "Teaching bike skills in the APY lands", Cycle!, Number 157, February-April 2013, page 12:
 * Maintenance has never been my favorite pursuit, and many of these repairs were complex and demanding, often requiring pulling parts off a cactused bike, and refitting them to a salvageable one.

Adjective: "(Australian, slang) in trouble, screwed"

 * 2007, Kevin James Baker, Economic Tsunami: China's Car Industry Will Sweep Away Western Car Makers, Rosenberg Publishing (2007), ISBN 9781877058561, page 22:
 * 'Mini — and that's managed by the Germans, by BMW. I tell you, Walshie, a lot of car makers around the world are cactussed. We're not Robinson Crusoe. But if times are tough now, what'll they be like when the Chinese arrive? If the UK's down to one profitable car maker. D'you think we can possibly hold on to four?'
 * 2009, Phillip Adams, "On balance, we're okay", The Australian, 20 June 2009:
 * The purpose of today's column is to cheer us both up, despite the inescapable fact the world is f..ked, not to mention cactused, knackered, stuffed, rooted and ruined
 * The purpose of today's column is to cheer us both up, despite the inescapable fact the world is f..ked, not to mention cactused, knackered, stuffed, rooted and ruined

Adjective: "(Australian, slang) tired, exhausted"

 * 1992, Steve Keenlyside, NSW Rogaining Newsletter, Number 36, October 1992, page 6:
 * Have fun, keep laughing and don't forget your vitamins. And you may as well run everywhere because you are going to be cactussed by the end anyway.