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, 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, 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, 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, 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.
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, 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, 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."
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, 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[edit]
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, page 66:
His high spirits descended temporarily. 'It took me thirty minutes to get her going again. The lift pump is cactused.'
2001 February 2, alister runge, “Parking in Sydney CBD - NOT!”, in aus.motorcycles[1] (Usenet):
RTA has a policy on "motor bike parking" but not available online so I don;t[sic] yet know what it is. Look under "Motor Bike Parking" on the following page. But don;t[sic] bother emailing Mr O'Keefe as his email address is cactused:- [URL redacted]
2001 December 20, bsa [username], “Re: Dingoblue Email Problems”, in aus.net.access[2] (Usenet):
the only time this does not work is when my DNS name server is cactused (which happens once or twice a year.)
2003 March 2, silvasurfa [username], “Re: Too much squicking is bad for you”, in alt.tasteless[3] (Usenet):
And it is likely that he took some time to notice that he was walking poorly... maybe the day before his disability payments were due to be deposited, and he'd run out of money for booze, which means his motor functions could have been cactused for up to a fortnight before he noticed that it wasn't just the bender making him stumble. Which would tee up with the size of the maggots too. Your motor functions are mostly clustered around the outside of the brain, so in this scenario they should have been being damaged quite early in the infestation.
2011 February 15, Trish Brown, “Re: PING PONG!”, in alt.beenz[4] (Usenet):
Mum's begun to decline suddenly - her short term memory is just about cactussed and she's getting vaguer and more defensive by the minute.
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"[edit]
2007, Kevin James Baker, Economic Tsunami: China's Car Industry Will Sweep Away Western Car Makers, Rosenberg Publishing (2007), →ISBN, 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?'
2008 May 22, John Ward, “Re: Helicopter - Wish I had more guts!!”, in alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim[5] (Usenet):
Good thing somebody figured out the radio, otherwise you all would have been cactused, in a remote location like that, mate.
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
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.
2002 September 23, Trish Brown, “OT: We *finally* got to the Zoo!!!”, in rec.crafts.textiles.needlework[6] (Usenet):
Well, we walked back and forth and back and forth for several hours (Taronga Park Zoo is on a hilly site overlooking Sydney Harbour) and by mid-afternoon we were absolutely cactussed! DH and I were supporting one another as we hobbled along on burning soles, but the kids were still romping along and forging ahead to find the Snow Leopards and the Lions.
2000 May 4, jim colbert, “Re: Our dollar slowly dying”, in aus.politics[7] (Usenet):
But the reason our dollar is falling (not a good or bad thing by itself) is that more people want to sell it than to buy it - probably because our BoP & current account is cactused (to use sophisticated market terminology).