† buschien.

Forms:

α. 1700s–1800s buschie.

β. 1800s boschie.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch bossieman.

Etymology: Apparently < South African Dutch bossie- (in bossieman Bushman (1685); compare boschjesman : for both, see bushman n.). Compare French buschie (1742 in a translation of the source cited in quots. 1731¹, 1731², or earlier). No morphologically parallel noun appears to be attested in the sense ‘Bushman, member of the San people’ in either South African Dutch or Afrikaans. Compare bosch-man n. at bosch n.¹ Compounds and bushman n. Compare also bush n.¹ 9a.In α. forms apparently influenced by either German Busch bush n.¹ or its English cognate. In β. forms apparently influenced by South African Dutch bosch bosch n.¹

Chiefly derogatory. Obsolete.

In early accounts of South Africa: = bushman n. 1a.

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1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. vii. 90 A Sort of Hottentot Banditti, that infest all the Nations about the Cape..They are call'd Buschies, or High-way Men.

1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. 269 Boeving and Tachart have vindicated the Hottentots from this Aspersion of Vogel, by representing their universal Love of Honesty and Fair Dealing, excepting that Part of 'em call'd the Buschies, or Robbers... The honest Hottentots abhor these Buschies as they do their Devil.

1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular VI. 184 The attacks of the buschies [Fr. buschies], or robbers of cattle.

1804 R. Percival Acct. Cape of Good Hope 95 The Boschies are looked upon as of a more cruel, hardened and savage disposition than the Hottentots at the Cape.

1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. I. viii. 125 The ‘Baroas’: that pigmy race, generally known to us as ‘Bushmen’..—the Obiquas, Sonquas, Soaquas, Mountain Banditti, or Buschies—so often alluded to in the olden records of the Cape.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	buschie
释义	† buschien. Forms: α. 1700s–1800s buschie. β. 1800s boschie. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Dutch. Etymon: Dutch bossieman. Etymology: Apparently < South African Dutch bossie- (in bossieman Bushman (1685); compare boschjesman : for both, see bushman n.). Compare French buschie (1742 in a translation of the source cited in quots. 1731¹, 1731², or earlier). No morphologically parallel noun appears to be attested in the sense ‘Bushman, member of the San people’ in either South African Dutch or Afrikaans. Compare bosch-man n. at bosch n.¹ Compounds and bushman n. Compare also bush n.¹ 9a.In α. forms apparently influenced by either German Busch bush n.¹ or its English cognate. In β. forms apparently influenced by South African Dutch bosch bosch n.¹ Chiefly derogatory. Obsolete. In early accounts of South Africa: = bushman n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > Bushmen > person buschie1731 bushman1785 earthman1852 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. vii. 90 A Sort of Hottentot Banditti, that infest all the Nations about the Cape..They are call'd Buschies, or High-way Men. 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope I. 269 Boeving and Tachart have vindicated the Hottentots from this Aspersion of Vogel, by representing their universal Love of Honesty and Fair Dealing, excepting that Part of 'em call'd the Buschies, or Robbers... The honest Hottentots abhor these Buschies as they do their Devil. 1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular VI. 184 The attacks of the buschies [Fr. buschies], or robbers of cattle. 1804 R. Percival Acct. Cape of Good Hope 95 The Boschies are looked upon as of a more cruel, hardened and savage disposition than the Hottentots at the Cape. 1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. I. viii. 125 The ‘Baroas’: that pigmy race, generally known to us as ‘Bushmen’..—the Obiquas, Sonquas, Soaquas, Mountain Banditti, or Buschies—so often alluded to in the olden records of the Cape. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1731
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