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单词 bushwhacker
释义

bushwhackern.

/ˈbʊʃˌhwakə/
Etymology: < bush n.1 + whacker n., one who ‘whacks’ or beats. (Compare also Dutch bosch-wachter, forest-keeper.)
U.S.
literal. One who whacks or beats bushes; hence,
1. One accustomed to beat about or make his way through bushes; a backwoodsman, a bush-ranger.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of
New Englander1637
bayman1641
New English1647
Novangle1650
Novanglian1752
Yankee1765
cracker1766
Yank?1778
bushwhacker1809
tuckahoe1816
southerner1817
Yengees1819
muskrat1823
blue belly1827
half horse and half alligator1828
Southron1828
northerner1831
westerner1835
Northman1836
Easterner1838
Far-Wester1843
southwesterner1845
western1846
sand-hiller1848
Vineyarder1851
mountain boomer1859
Far Westerner1862
blue-nosed Yankee1866
Appalachian1888
sloper1892
Ozarkian1893
rebel1895
reb1897
Middle Westerner1899
hillbilly1900
Midwesterner1916
Ozarker1920
Geechee1926
Middle American1944
upstater1944
Mid-American1959
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. iv. 107 They were gallant bush-whackers and hunters of racoons by moon-light.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. xlii. 86 Do you think..all our eastern dignitaries combined could have compelled young bushwhackers to wear coats and shoes in recitation rooms?
2. Applied in the American Civil War to irregular combatants who took to the woods, and were variously regarded as patriot guerrillas, or as bush-rangers and banditti; a bush-fighter.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > guerrilla > [noun] > specific
jay-hawker1860
bushwhacker1862
comitadji1903
chetnik1909
partisan1917
shifta1920
fellagha1922
maquisard1944
mujahidin1947
Tupamaro1969
terr1976
1862 Macmillan's Mag. June 141 Of banditti, or bush-whackers..we say nothing.
1866 J. E. H. Skinner After Storm I. 240 Neither bushwhackers or slaves were seen in the streets.
3. A scythe or other implement used to cut away brushwood.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > scythe > types of
brush-scythe1573
grass scythe1573
cradle-scythe1669
crather1688
bushwhacker1858
1858 J. Dow Serm. I The victim soon destined to fall before the keen-edged bush-whacker of Time.
1858 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 396/1 He is a graduate of the plough, and the stub-hoe, and the bush-whacker.
4. One who clears the land of bush, esp. an axeman engaged in cutting timber. New Zealand.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman
wood-hewerc1000
wooderc1050
hagger1294
wood-hagger1294
feller1422
woodman1426
faller1614
wood-maker1616
forest-feller1618
axeman1671
holt-felstera1678
stocker1686
bayman1715
logger1734
wood-cutter1758
lumberer1809
lumbermana1817
shantyman1824
chopper1827
splitter1841
bushman1846
mahogany cutter1850
piner1871
bush-faller1882
lumberjack1888
bushwhacker1898
home guard1903
Jack1910
gyppo1912
timber-getter1912
timberjack1916
timber beast1919
1898 J. Bell In Shadow of Bush iv. 18 Davie isn't qualified as a bush whacker yet.
1907 W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 257 The most skilful bush-whacker in the district.
1948 R. Finlayson Tidal Creek ii. v. 149 How nice after Uncle Ted's bushwhacker style to see a table with a crisp white cloth.

Derivatives

bushwhackerism n.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > brigandage or freebooting > [noun]
trailbaston1304
brigantaille1393
latrocinyc1430
brigancy1513
free-boot1598
freebootinga1599
brigandize1609
latronage1619
free-booty1649
moss-trooping1649
buccaneering1758
dacoiting1802
gang robbery1812
dacoity1813
free-bootery1813
brigandage1823
bush-ranging1832
mosstroopery1845
filibustering1856
klephtism1858
robberhood1863
brigandism1865
Vikingism1880
bushwhackerism1883
Vikingship1883
banditism1885
dacoitage1887
brigandry1909
banditry1922
1883 American 6 356 The ‘border ruffianism’ and the ‘bushwhackerism’ which disgraced Missouri.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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