bushn.¹

Brit.

/bʊʃ/, U.S.

/bʊʃ/

Forms: Middle English–1600s busk, Middle English–1600s buske; Middle English bos(s)ch(e, bossh(e, buss(e, (also bousch(e, boysch, buysch(e), Middle English busch(e, bussch(e, Middle English–1500s bussh(e, Middle English boshe, 1500s bushe, buszhe, Middle English– bush; Scottish1500s– bus, buss.

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse busk-r.

Etymology: Middle English busk , < Old Norse busk-r (Danish busk , Swedish buske ), cognate with Old High German bush (Middle High German busch , bosch , German busch ), Middle Dutch busc , bosc (Dutch bosch , bos ), all < Rom. bosco or late Latin boscum , boscus wood, of which the ulterior source is unknown. Compare boscage n., bosk n. The form busk is still found in northern dialect, but in Sc. is reduced to bus, buss; the buss of the Ayenbite was only Dan Michel's way of spelling bush with ss for sh.

a. A shrub, particularly one with close branches arising from or near the ground; a small clump of shrubs apparently forming one plant.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [noun] > shrub or bush

shrub972

bosk1297

bushc1315

treec1350

scrub1398

boce1482

shrag1552

virgult?1553

tod1563

risp1567

bush-tuft1586

frutex1664

scrub-tree1749

α. Form busk. Obsolete exc. dialect

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2779 Vt of ðat busk..God sente an steuene.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 136 Briddes..þat in buskes [1393 C. xiv. 156 bosshes, bussches, busches] made nestes.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 56 Buske or busshe, rubus, dumus.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 29 Birdis hoppand fra busk to tuist.

1601 R. Yarington Two Lamentable Trag. sig. E4^v Thickets full of buskes.

1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 46 Lads love's a busk of broom.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 203 Busks, bushes.

1863 Ld. Lytton Ring of Amasis II. 211 The old straight carriage-drives..now wind in and out among the busks and thickets.

β. Form bush.c1315 Shoreham 131 Thou art the bosche of Synay.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 28 Ne in gerse, ne in busse, ne in trauwe.c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke vi. 44 A boysch [a1425 L.V. buysche] of breris.a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxl. 1036 A busshe hatte rubus.c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 87 As plummes boshes are.1543 Act 35 Hen. VIII xvii. §4 Over-grown with Bushes or Under-wood.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 176 The undergrowth Of shrubs and tangling bushes . 1864 Ld. Tennyson Grandmother 40 In the bush beside me chirrupt the nightingale.γ. Form bus (Scottish).1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 62 And flemit Flora frome euery bank and bus.1778 A. Ross Helenore (ed. 2) 28 Upon the busses, birdies sweetly sung.1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems II. 163 I like our hills an' heathery braes, Ilk burdie, buss, an' burnie.1888 N.E.D. at Bush Sc. Proverbs Better a wee buss than nae beild. Ye maun bow to the buss ye get bield frae.

b. to beat the bush: (literal) in bat-fowling, to rouse the birds that they may fly into the net held by some one else; (figurative) to expend labour of which the fruit is not gained by oneself. (Cf. beat v.¹ 26) to beat (formerly also go, wend, seek) about the bush: to go indirectly and tentatively towards an object, to avoid coming to the point. (Cf. beat v.¹ 26c.)

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > hunt birds [verb (intransitive)] > at night > rouse birds

to beat the bushc1440

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > use periphrasis

to beat (formerly also go, wend, seek) about the bushc1440

wind1528

periphrase1652

to go about1815

circumlocute1859

circumlocutionize1886

to go (all) round the houses1958

c1440 Generydes 4524 Some bete the bussh and some the byrdes take.

1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. A.iij A longe betyng aboute the busshe & losse of tyme to a yonge begynner.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 1 b If he utter his mind in plain wordes: and tell it orderly, without goynge about the bushe.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 12 That we shuld not seke about the bush for an vncertaine Godhead.

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 528 We have beaten the bush, and not come plainly to the point.

1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy iii. ii I went round the bush, and round the bush, before I came to the matter.

1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 4 621 He never goes about the bush for a phrase.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. ix. 212 He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iii. 29 Benighted fowls, when you beat their bushes, rush towards any light.

c. Proverbs.

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1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 123 Thus hath every gap his bush, each suspition his prevention.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiii. iii. 474 Therefore with one bush (as they say) ye are to stop two gaps, and to do both at once.

1638 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 97 This common usage of the phrase, as it well preserveth the sence, so doth it also (that I may stop two gaps with one bush) justifie the truth of this charge in my text.

c1689 Popish Pol. Unmaskt 84 in 3rd Coll. Poems (1689) 23/2 With them one Bird in Hand's worth two i' th' Bush.

1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 247 The..chance of receiving gold which is still like the bird in the bush.

2. In northern dialects extended to sub-shrubs as heather, or herbaceous plants growing in a clump, as nettles, ferns, rushes.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [noun] > shrub or bush > subshrub

bush1529

suffrutex1567

undershrub1598

subshrub1825

1529 D. Lindsay Compl. 408 Ihone Vpeland bene full blyith, I trow, Because the rysche bus kepis his kow.

1570 Trag. in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 232 Than mycht the Rasche bus keip ky on the bordour.

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 395/2 in Chron. I Caused the rashe bush to keepe the Cowe.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xii. 259 The oppressors that hae driven me to tak the heather bush for a beild.

†3. collectively. A clump of shrubs, a thicket; bushy ground. (Cf. bosk n. 2) Obsolete except as reintroduced in sense 9.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush

shaw755

thicketa1000

thyvela1000

greavec1050

wood-shawc1275

boscagec1400

greenwood shawc1405

thickc1430

brakec1440

shaw of wood1462

queach1486

bush1523

tuft1555

bushment1587

bocage1644

cripple1675

virgult1736

bluffc1752

thick-set1766

sylvagea1774

thicket-maze1813

bosk1815

woodlet1821

rush1822

puckerbrush1867

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of

ripplelOE

wildwooda1122

rough1332

firth?a1400

tod stripec1446

osiard1509

bush1523

bush-ground1523

fritha1552

island1638

oak landc1658

pinelandc1658

piney wood1666

broom-land1707

pine barrenc1721

pine savannah1735

savannah1735

thick woods1754

scrub-land1779

olive wood1783

primeval forest1789

open wood1790

strong woods1792

scrub1805

oak flata1816

sertão1816

sprout-land1824

flatwoods1841

bush-land1842

tall timber1845

amber forest1846

caatinga1846

mahogany scrub1846

bush-flat1847

myall country1847

national forest1848

selva1849

monte1851

virgin forest1851

bush-country1855

savannah forest1874

bush-range1879

bushveld1879

protection forest1889

mulga1896

wood-bush1896

shinnery1901

fringing forest1903

monsoon forest1903

rainforest1903

savannah woodland1903

thorn forest1903

tropical rainforest1903

gallery forest1920

cloud forest1922

rain jungle1945

mato1968

1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng iii. f. 2^v Highe grounde and drie, is moost conuenyent for shepe, wode grounde and busshe for beestes.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 5 She had hydden her selfe in a groue..But Theseus fynding her, called her..Vpon which..she came out of the bushe.

a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) v. 261 The rest betook them to a little bush of wood, where being environed on all sides, they yielded.

†4.

a. A clump of shrubs used as a place of concealment; = ambush n. So to take a bush, to thrust or run one's head in a bush. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun]

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hidela1300

bushc1330

hulkc1330

derna1340

tapissinga1340

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loting-placea1398

cover14..

hiding placec1440

mewa1450

closetc1450

hole1483

cure1502

secret1530

shrouding place1571

ivy-bush1576

coney burrowa1586

hidlings1597

foxhole1606

shrouding corner1610

recess1611

subterfuge1616

latibule1623

latebra1626

blind1646

privacy1648

hide1649

retreat1697

rathole1770

hidey-hole1817

tod hole1846

hulster1880

hideout1885

cwtch1890

castle1898

lurk1906

stash1927

hideaway1930

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > hostile lying in wait > place of ambush > a thicket

bushc1330

bushailea1400

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] > go into hiding > in vegetation

to take a bush1631

wood1645

to thrust or run one's head in a bush1655

c1330 Arth. & Merl. 8432 In on busse thou the hide.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2887 Þan schullaþ our men of hem be-war & breken out of þe bossche.

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 659 This Palamoun Was in a bussh þ^t no man myghte hym se.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 71 [He] stud in-till a busk lurkand.

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iv. sig. C.j^v As the beast passed by, he start out of a buske.

1631 J. Burges Answer Reioyned 52 Hee againe takes a bush, and hides himselfe vnder the ambiguous terme of Religious Ceremonies.

1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 54 In stead of confessing their sins, they run their head in a bush, and by their good will would not come where God is.

b. beggar's-bush: see beggar n. Compounds 2.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 76 And wil you (being a man of your breeding) be married vnder a bush like a begger?

a. A branch or bunch of ivy (perhaps as the plant sacred to Bacchus) hung up as a vintner's sign; hence, the sign-board of a tavern.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > tavern sign

lion?a1366

ale stake1396

ivy14..

sunc1400

tokenc1440

eagle1449

chequerc1460

wisp?1507

Saracen's head1510

ale-pole1523

bush1532

wine garland1533

ivy-garland1553

tavern-bush1553

lattice1575

ivy-bush1576

alebush1599

red lattice1604

elephanta1616

sagittarya1616

grate1622

wine-bush1638

popinjay1687

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. (1557) 642/1 Set vp for a bare signe, as a tauerners bush or tapsters ale stake.

1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 185 Womens beauty..is like vnto an Iuy bush, that cals men to the tauern, but hangs itselfe withoute to winde and wether.

1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good sig. C3^v As a drawer in a new Tauern, first day the bush is hung vp.

c1613 S. Rowlands More Knaues Yet? 36 At next bush and signe Calling for clarret.

1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 97 Wicker bottles dangling over even the chief entrance..serving for a vintner's bush.

1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. xxxi. 158 You may bind two of them a cross, like a Tavern-Bush.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bush, also denotes a coronated frame of wood hung out as a sign at taverns..antiently, signs where wine was sold were bushes.

1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) ix. 71 How should people know where wine is sold, unless a bush is hung out?

b. Hence, the tavern itself.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house

houseOE

tavern1297

tavern-housea1400

sunc1400

tap-house1500

tippling-housea1549

innsc1550

bousing-inn1575

ivy-bush1576

osteria1580

ordinary1590

caback1591

taberna1593

bousing-house1594

pothouse1598

red lattice1604

cupping-house1615

public house1617

busha1625

Wirtshaus1650

bibbery1653

cabaret1656

gaming ordinary1667

public1685

shop1695

bibbing-housea1704

dram-shop1725

gill house1728

rum shop1738

buvette1753

dram-house1753

grog-shop1790

wine-vault1791

pub1800

pulperia1818

pulqueria1822

potation-shop1823

rum hole1825

Wirtschaft1834

drunkery1836

pot shop1837

drinkery1840

rum mill1844

khazi1846

beer-shop1848

boozer1895

rub-a-dub1898

Weinstube1899

rubbity-dub1905

peg house1922

rub-a-dub-dub1932

rubbity1941

Stube1946

superpub1964

a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher (O.) Twenty to one you find him at the bush.

1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 2nd Pt. v. sig. L^v Then will I go home to the bush where I drew wine.

c. Proverb. good wine needs no bush.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Bon Good wine draws customers without any help of an iuy-bush.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) Epil. 4 If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue.

1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 168 As good Wine needs no Bush, no more do good Medicines a printed Bill.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 30 Good wine needs neither bush, herald, nor crier.

1861 W. Thornbury in Good Words 432 Faded boughs—the bush that good wine does not need—rustle over the door.

d. figurative as to hang out bushes.

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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertise [verb (intransitive)]

to hang out bushesa1640

advertise1772

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bb2v/1 Young women, in the old world were not wont, Sir, To hang out gaudy busshes for their beauties.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §2 In every one of them, some outward figures, which hang as signes or bushes of their inward formes.

e. figurative. Boasting, bluster, ‘tall talk’. U.S. dialect.

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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun]

facing1481

blusteringa1494

flirdom?a1500

bravity1546

bravery1548

roistingc1560

bravado1583

roister-doisterdom1592

swash1593

swaggeringa1596

huffing1600

hufty1609

huff1611

brustling1622

hufty-tufty1633

bouncing1634

hectorism1672

huffiness1678

bluster1692

bounce1714

bravadoism1833

fanfaronading1837

bush1840

huffishness1841

swashbuckling1888

bucko1909

1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xii. 166 You Maine folks have been talkin' a leetle too fast lately, a leetle too much bush.

†6. transferred.

a. Anything resembling a bush; a bushy mass of foliage, feathers, etc.; a bunch. Obsolete or dialect.

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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > tuft > like a brush or bush

bush1530

brush1581

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 202/1 Busshe of oystrisshe fethers, plumart.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 296 The cypres tree..growyng sharpe with a bushe greate beneth and smal aboue of a trymme facion.

1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados vii. xi. 77 Amyd ane bus, of speris in rade thay.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. iii. 432/2 In the ninth of his Raigne a blazing Starre appeared with two bushes.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xi. 40 They put on all their bravery..and bushes of feathers.

b. A signalling instrument used in Cornish pilchard fishing. local.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > other fishing devices

raw1533

taining1533

kepper1558

rack1735

fluke-rake1766

runner1766

jig1846

bush1880

fish-gorge1883

gorge1883

1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 8/1 Bush, two hoops fixed on a short pole, passing through each other at right angles.

1892 Graphic 13 Aug. 194/1 The huers on land making signals to the boatmen with two instruments called ‘bushes’, which are hoops crossing each other, and covered with a white bag, and fastened to the end of short rods.

c. The cat-o'-nine-tails. slang.

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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge > cat-o'-nine-tails

cat-o'-nine-tails1695

cat1788

bone-polisher1803

thieves' cat1867

martinet1881

bush1895

1895 Daily News 13 Sept. 7/6 They might give him twenty years, and he should not care, so long as they did not order him the bush.

a. esp. A bushy head of hair. (Very common in 16th cent.: of hair is now expressed.)

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the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > bushy or thick

bush1509

hair-bush1580

bush-heada1603

shag1607

fella1616

mop1616

bush-hair1692

hassock1754

mopheada1816

shock-head1817

shock1819

flock-hair1878

tousle1880

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxlv To hyre the busshe of one that late is dede Therwith to disgyse his folys dotynge hede.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 762 Trymme my busshe, barber.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. 2 Kings xiv. 26 Once a yeare he was powled, because his bush did burden him.

1640 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 147 A bush of hair will do it, where it groweth.

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 57 He who wears a long bush, All powder'd down from his Pericrane.

a1845 R. H. Barham Jerry Jarvis's Wig in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 328 A continued tuft of coarse, wiry hair..swelled out in a greyish-looking bush above the occiput.

1880 Chambers's Jrnl. 774 Their heads..covered with great bushes of wool.

b. occasionally of a bushy beard, or eyebrows.

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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > beard > types of

bush-beard1606

bush1647

barbula1688

beardlet1847

doormat1909

the world > life > the body > hair > eyebrow > [noun]

overbrowOE

breec1275

bryn1330

bent browc1380

superciliuma1398

brow1398

eyebrowa1450

winbrow?1473

beetle1532

eye-bree1543

bow1729

arch-brow1741

bush1859

c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 261 His browes war like litel buskes.]

1647 S. Sheppard 2nd Pt. Committee man Curried i. ii. 2 His chin has no bush, save a little downe.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 136 He dragg'd his eyebrow bushes down, and made A snowy penthouse for his hollow eyes.

c. (A bushy growth of) pubic hair. slang.

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the world > life > the body > hair > pubic hair > [noun]

pubes1569

garden1732

fud1771

pubic hair1836

moss1847

rug1893

maidenhair1908

pussy hairc1910

bush1922

man-hair1928

thatch1933

chuff1967

pube1967

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. v. [Lotus Eaters] 83 He..saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands.

1959 M. Richler Apprenticeship Duddy Kravitz i. ix. 50 Milty ran off crying... ‘What is it, pussy-lamb?’ ‘I'm never going to grow a bush, Mummy.’

1968 J. Updike Couples i. 9 Her throat, wrists, and triangular bush appeared the pivots for some undeniable effort of flight.

1973 A. Powell Temporary Kings ii. 72 He insisted on taking a cutting from my bush—said he always did that after having anyone for the first time.

†8. A bushy tail, esp. of a fox; = brush n.² 3b.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Vulpes > vulpes vulpes (fox) > miscellaneous parts of > tail and parts of

bush1575

brush1675

chape1677

holy-water sprinkle1706

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 241 The tayle of a Foxe is called his Bush.

1584 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 113 It seemeth to be a dead Lion; for it hath a long tail with a bush at the end.

1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 176 Termes of the Tayle. That of a Fox is termed his Bush.

a. (Recent, and probably a direct adoption of the Dutch bosch, in colonies originally Dutch.) Woodland, country more or less covered with natural wood: applied to the uncleared or untilled districts in the former British Colonies which are still in a state of nature, or largely so, even though not wooded; and by extension to the country as opposed to the towns. For U.S. examples see D.A., D.A.E.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun]

westerneOE

weste landOE

wastinea1175

westec1175

wastec1200

wildernc1200

wildernessc1200

wildernessc1230

warlottc1290

forestc1320

wastyc1325

deserta1398

wastern?a1400

wildnessa1513

the wilds of1600

vastness1605

vastacy1607

roughet1616

wild1637

wildland1686

bush1780

wastage1823

mesquite1834

wasteland1887

mulga1896

virgin bush1905

boondock1944

boonies1954

virgin land1955

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land

wold786

frith?826

woodland869

woodc897

rough1332

foresta1375

firth?a1400

weald1544

bocage1644

parkland1649

bush1780

sylvanry1821

forestry1823

belting1844

rukh1856

treescape1885

bush1912

1780¹ [see bush-cat n. at Compounds 2].

1826 J. Atkinson Acct. Agric. & Grazing New S. Wales iv. 64 When any person finds himself overstocked..they go into the interior, or bush, as it is termed, beyond the occupied parts of the country.

1828 W. Scott Tapestr. Chamb. When I was in the Bush, as the Virginians call it.

1836 W. B. Marshall Personal Narr. Two Visits N.Z. 152 They [sc. the interpreters] took to the bush for shelter by day.

1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales I. 253 His house was well enough for the bush, as the country is generally termed in the colony.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. iv. 305 The Black man loves the Bush.

1851 N. J. Merriman Jrnl. 21 Sept. in Kafir, Hottentot & Frontier Farmer (1854) 121 His mother and sister had escaped into the bush for refuge.

1857 R. B. Paul Lett. from Canterbury iv. 65 A pleasant walk of three hours through the bush.

1873 A. Trollope Austral. & N.Z. I. 299 Nearly every place beyond the influences of the big towns is called ‘bush’ even though there should be not a tree to be seen.

1874 J. C. Geikie Life in Woods (ed. 2) ii. 21 Every thing being much cheaper in Toronto than away in the bush.

1886 N.Z. Herald 1 June 2/4 There is a bush upon it of 63 acres.

1888 Castle Line Handbk. & Emigrant's Guide S. Afr. 69 The soil..having been covered to a large extent by a thick forest of trees (usually termed ‘bush’).

1953 A. Paton Too Late Phalarope vii. 52 The kloof was wooded, not with forest, but with what we in South Africa call the bush.

1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 27 He's been in the bush so long he's started to look like a roo.

b. to take to the bush.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > to the country or bush

to take to the bush1837

to go bush1908

1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales II. 15 Four of them immediately take to the bush, i.e. become bush-rangers, or run~away convicts, subsisting on plunder.

†c. A clump of trees. New Zealand. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > clump or cluster

hata1425

tuftc1450

plumpa1470

clumpa1586

turb1618

hummock1636

toll1644

bush1856

1856 T. Tancred in Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 3 7 Over these tracts are scattered some small ‘bushes’, or woods.

1857 R. B. Paul Lett. from Canterbury vi. 94 You should try to have a bush on or near your section.

1867 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) x. 62 Most stations have a bush near the homestead.

d. plural = sense 9a. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood

ronea1300

underwooda1325

rammel1338

brushetc1380

scroga1400

bushailec1400

frithing1429

brushal1430

brushc1440

ronec1440

thevec1440

garsil1483

shroga1500

cablish1594

south-bois1598

undergrowth1600

frith1605

hand timber1664

subbois1664

urith1671

brushwood1732

bush-wood1771

underbrush1775

slop1784

woodiness1796

scrub1805

shag1836

chaparral1845

underbush1849

underscrub1870

sand-brush1871

buck-brush1874

bush1879

horizontal scrub1888

tangle-wood1894

shin-tangle1905

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land

wold786

frith?826

woodland869

woodc897

rough1332

foresta1375

firth?a1400

weald1544

bocage1644

parkland1649

bush1780

sylvanry1821

forestry1823

belting1844

rukh1856

treescape1885

bush1912

1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xxii. 130 That refuge of free thought at the South, the woods (or ‘the bushes’, as the scraggly growth is more generally termed).

1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch x. 210 The youngsters, who have come from the bushes and realize that this is their..chance to make good.

e. to go bush, to go into the country; to leave the city; to disappear from one's usual surroundings. Also transferred, to run wild, to go berserk. Originally and chiefly Australian.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > to the country or bush

to take to the bush1837

to go bush1908

society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > from the city or one's usual place

to go bush1908

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [verb (intransitive)] > suffer from frenzy or raging

awedeeOE

to tear (out) the hairc1330

to run amok1672

amoka1811

to go berserk1917

to do one's (occasionally the) nut1919

to go bush1933

1908 J. Gunn We of Never-never 8 She went bush with me when I'd nothing but a skeeto net and a quart-pot to share with her.

1927 M. Terry Through Land of Promise 41 The English settlers..tried to tame them for domestic purposes. But the greater number had already ‘gone bush’.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Feb. 20 It is rare for this fellow [sc. a dog] to go bush, but it has been recorded.

1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. x. 78 Milbuka had fled, ‘gone bush’ that morning, and could not be found.

1946 F. D. Davison Dusty xiv. 156 From the fact that separate killings [of sheep] were reported it was natural to conclude that they were the work of a sheep dog gone bush.

1953 V. Bartlett Struggle for Afr. i. 24 An African may do the same job day after day for months or years, and then suddenly ‘go bush’, omit some vital part of his routine, even say or do things which he himself cannot remember or explain when the mood is over.

1958 R. Stow To Islands 118 Brother Heriot has disappeared. He's gone bush somewhere and he might never come back.

1964 Economist 30 May 1000/1 To take refuge from [Australian] urban problems by ‘going bush’.

Compounds

C1. attributive and general combinations:

a. (In sense 1.)

(a)

bush-faggot n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > bundle > of bush

bush-faggot1843

1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 292 Two rows of bush-faggots are laid for perhaps 50 yards in advance on the mud at low water.

bush-fruit n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > [noun] > fruit by type of growth

orchard fruit1652

tree-fruit1704

tropical fruit1746

bush-fruit1884

cane-fruit1889

1884 Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 11/1 Bush fruit, including gooseberries..raspberries, nuts, &c.

bush-ground n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of

ripplelOE

wildwooda1122

rough1332

firth?a1400

tod stripec1446

osiard1509

bush1523

bush-ground1523

fritha1552

island1638

oak landc1658

pinelandc1658

piney wood1666

broom-land1707

pine barrenc1721

pine savannah1735

savannah1735

thick woods1754

scrub-land1779

olive wood1783

primeval forest1789

open wood1790

strong woods1792

scrub1805

oak flata1816

sertão1816

sprout-land1824

flatwoods1841

bush-land1842

tall timber1845

amber forest1846

caatinga1846

mahogany scrub1846

bush-flat1847

myall country1847

national forest1848

selva1849

monte1851

virgin forest1851

bush-country1855

savannah forest1874

bush-range1879

bushveld1879

protection forest1889

mulga1896

wood-bush1896

shinnery1901

fringing forest1903

monsoon forest1903

rainforest1903

savannah woodland1903

thorn forest1903

tropical rainforest1903

gallery forest1920

cloud forest1922

rain jungle1945

mato1968

1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xix. f. 34^v Howe moche wode grounde or busshe grounde, heythe, lyng, or suche other.

bush-planting n.

ΚΠ

1822 W. Pontey Rural Improver xv. 165 The two breaks between the planting, on the western outline, are filled up by two patches of bush planting.

1907 Gardeners' Chron. 23 Feb. 116/1 The planting of some thousands of Black Currant-cuttings and some Apple stocks followed the tree and bush planting.

bush-tuft n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [noun] > shrub or bush

shrub972

bosk1297

bushc1315

treec1350

scrub1398

boce1482

shrag1552

virgult?1553

tod1563

risp1567

bush-tuft1586

frutex1664

scrub-tree1749

1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. H.iiii Fro the sun beames safe lie lyzardes vnder a bushtufte.

(b)

bush-clad adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of

bushya1382

ramagea1500

boskya1616

brakya1637

brushy1658

brushed1666

scrubbya1687

pine barrenc1721

bush-grown1837

stumpy1838

bush-skirted1858

bushed1868

bush-covered1873

bush-fringed1891

bush-clad1909

primary forest1909

1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 June 5/3 The bush-clad plains of the North-Eastern Transvaal.

bush-covered adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of

bushya1382

ramagea1500

boskya1616

brakya1637

brushy1658

brushed1666

scrubbya1687

pine barrenc1721

bush-grown1837

stumpy1838

bush-skirted1858

bushed1868

bush-covered1873

bush-fringed1891

bush-clad1909

primary forest1909

1873 J. H. H. St. John Pakeha Rambles through Maori Lands v. 67 The dark bush-covered hills of the Hunua.

1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 81 The rocky bush-covered foot of Schwartz Kop.

bush-fringed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of

bushya1382

ramagea1500

boskya1616

brakya1637

brushy1658

brushed1666

scrubbya1687

pine barrenc1721

bush-grown1837

stumpy1838

bush-skirted1858

bushed1868

bush-covered1873

bush-fringed1891

bush-clad1909

primary forest1909

1891 ‘J. Evelyn’ Baffled Vengeance 47 The river between its bush-fringed banks.

bush-grown adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of

bushya1382

ramagea1500

boskya1616

brakya1637

brushy1658

brushed1666

scrubbya1687

pine barrenc1721

bush-grown1837

stumpy1838

bush-skirted1858

bushed1868

bush-covered1873

bush-fringed1891

bush-clad1909

primary forest1909

1837 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 15 July in Amer. Notebks. (1972) ii. 48 A deep dell, wooded and bush-grown.

1884 M. Pattison Mem. (1885) 32 The little bush-grown beck which bounded our parish.

bush-like adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [adjective] > of or resembling a shrub or bush

shrubbed1539

bushy1567

bushed1573

shrubby1581

frutical1597

woody1609

shrubbish1656

arbustal1657

fruticeousa1682

frutescent1710

fruticose1805

fruticulose1830

bush-like1878

1878 W. Ogle tr. A. J. Kerner Flowers iv. 37 Great bush-like plants of Senecio.

bush-skirted adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of

bushya1382

ramagea1500

boskya1616

brakya1637

brushy1658

brushed1666

scrubbya1687

pine barrenc1721

bush-grown1837

stumpy1838

bush-skirted1858

bushed1868

bush-covered1873

bush-fringed1891

bush-clad1909

primary forest1909

1858 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (new ed.) 313 This woody, bush-skirted walk.

b. (In senses 7, 8.)

(a)

bush-beard n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > beard > types of

bush-beard1606

bush1647

barbula1688

beardlet1847

doormat1909

1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe i. sig. A3^v He weares a bush beard.

1662 Greenhalgh in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. 309. IV. 8 A learned Jew with a mighty bush~beard.

bush-hair n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > bushy or thick

bush1509

hair-bush1580

bush-heada1603

shag1607

fella1616

mop1616

bush-hair1692

hassock1754

mopheada1816

shock-head1817

shock1819

flock-hair1878

tousle1880

1692 London Gaz. No. 2809/4 Another..Man..with small grey Eyes, brown bush Hair.

bush-head n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > bushy or thick

bush1509

hair-bush1580

bush-heada1603

shag1607

fella1616

mop1616

bush-hair1692

hassock1754

mopheada1816

shock-head1817

shock1819

flock-hair1878

tousle1880

a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 196 Your puppet being lifted aboue the Priests bush head.

bush-tail n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] > relating to the tail > having a tail > having a bushy tail > bushy

bush-tail1606

besom-tail1678

1606 Wily Beguilde 48 I might haue tournde my faire bush tayle to you instead of your father.

1708 London Gaz. No. 4453/3 A..Danish Bitch, with a Black Muzzle, and a long Bush Tail.

bush-wig n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > types of > bushy

busby1770

buzz-wig1798

bush-wig1805

1805 Miniature (1806) No. 34 II. 175 Sober whist is by no means below the dignity of a bush~wig.

(b)

bush-bearded adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > beard > types of > having

long-beardedc1400

red-bearded1552

white-bearded1555

whey-bearded1556

grey-bearded1562

black-bearded1577

barbatulousc1600

bush-bearded1615

big-bearded1620

sand-beardeda1641

goateed1847

brown-bearded1882

peach fuzz1932

peach-fuzzed1956

1615 A. Stafford Heavenly Dogge 59 An austere bushbearded Philosopher.

1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. i. 13 He was a fair, huge, bush-bearded man.

bush-haired adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > bushy, thick > having

shaggeda1000

roughOE

thick-hairedc1405

busheda1513

bush-haired1530

maned1530

bush-headed1552

shack-haired1555

mop-headed?1566

shag-haired1577

shag-hair1584

shaggyc1590

rug-headed1597

hirsute1621

hobby-headeda1625

shock1681

shocky1698

shock-head1842

tousled-headed1860

tousle-haired1880

flock-headed1891

thick-piled1976

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 307/1 Busshe heered, crespelleux.

bush-headed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > bushy, thick > having

shaggeda1000

roughOE

thick-hairedc1405

busheda1513

bush-haired1530

maned1530

bush-headed1552

shack-haired1555

mop-headed?1566

shag-haired1577

shag-hair1584

shaggyc1590

rug-headed1597

hirsute1621

hobby-headeda1625

shock1681

shocky1698

shock-head1842

tousled-headed1860

tousle-haired1880

flock-headed1891

thick-piled1976

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bussh hedded, or he that hath a good bussh of heare.

bush-tailed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] > relating to the tail > having a tail > having a bushy tail

besom-tailed1695

brushing1734

brush-tailed1853

bushy-tailed1868

bush-tailed1872

1872 W. F. Butler Great Lone Land (1875) xxi. 339 The bush-tailed..clean-legged animals.

c. (In sense 9 = ‘in the Bush’). Also bush-ranger n.

bush-country n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of

ripplelOE

wildwooda1122

rough1332

firth?a1400

tod stripec1446

osiard1509

bush1523

bush-ground1523

fritha1552

island1638

oak landc1658

pinelandc1658

piney wood1666

broom-land1707

pine barrenc1721

pine savannah1735

savannah1735

thick woods1754

scrub-land1779

olive wood1783

primeval forest1789

open wood1790

strong woods1792

scrub1805

oak flata1816

sertão1816

sprout-land1824

flatwoods1841

bush-land1842

tall timber1845

amber forest1846

caatinga1846

mahogany scrub1846

bush-flat1847

myall country1847

national forest1848

selva1849

monte1851

virgin forest1851

bush-country1855

savannah forest1874

bush-range1879

bushveld1879

protection forest1889

mulga1896

wood-bush1896

shinnery1901

fringing forest1903

monsoon forest1903

rainforest1903

savannah woodland1903

thorn forest1903

tropical rainforest1903

gallery forest1920

cloud forest1922

rain jungle1945

mato1968

1855 W. G. Simms Forayers 544 Who would have thought of any fellow being such a..booby as to bring a bathing-tub..into..bush country?

1859 J. Rochfort in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. (1862) 32 297 In looking across this lake you perceive a flat bush-country.

1954 J. Collin-Smith Scorpion on Stone xx. 291 The lightening landscape of uninhabited scrub and bush-country.

bush-farm n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > other farms

home farm1749

city farm1750

county farm1785

factory farm1824

bird farm1842

provision farm1846

spade-farm1848

bush-farm1851

poor farm1852

sewage farm1870

cacao farm1871

mixed farm1872

vertical farm1897

prison farm1961

nuplex1968

1851 Househ. Words II. 490 He had been down to the port from his Bush-farm to sell his stuff.

bush-farming n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > types of farming

high culture1771

scientific farming1789

metaying1792

high farming1815

petite culture1848

sharefarming1857

urban agriculture1860

bush-farming1866

mixed farming1872

dry farming1878

co-aration1883

co-ploughing1883

smallholding1889

power-farming1913

dry-land farming1914

third(s)-and-fourth(s)1940

link system1950

green revolution1968

1866 M. Lemon Wait for End x. 131 His log-house and his bush-farming.

bush-fire n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > destructive > bush or forest fire

prairie fire1824

bush-fire1847

brush-fire1850

crown fire1893

red steer1936

1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. v. 147 The smoke of extensive bush-fires was observed under Lord's Table Range.

1868 C. W. Dilke Greater Brit. II. iii. iii. 32 The smoke from these bush-fires sometimes extends for hundreds of miles to sea.

bush-flat n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of

ripplelOE

wildwooda1122

rough1332

firth?a1400

tod stripec1446

osiard1509

bush1523

bush-ground1523

fritha1552

island1638

oak landc1658

pinelandc1658

piney wood1666

broom-land1707

pine barrenc1721

pine savannah1735

savannah1735

thick woods1754

scrub-land1779

olive wood1783

primeval forest1789

open wood1790

strong woods1792

scrub1805

oak flata1816

sertão1816

sprout-land1824

flatwoods1841

bush-land1842

tall timber1845

amber forest1846

caatinga1846

mahogany scrub1846

bush-flat1847

myall country1847

national forest1848

selva1849

monte1851

virgin forest1851

bush-country1855

savannah forest1874

bush-range1879

bushveld1879

protection forest1889

mulga1896

wood-bush1896

shinnery1901

fringing forest1903

monsoon forest1903

rainforest1903

savannah woodland1903

thorn forest1903

tropical rainforest1903

gallery forest1920

cloud forest1922

rain jungle1945

mato1968

1847 N.Z. Jrnl. 7 cxc. 90 The Ma-Whera river, another very considerable stream running through fine bush flats.

1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 136 Four deer and three hours later we came to a long bush-flat where the trees were enormous.

bush-girl n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of > woman or girl

bush-girl1822

bushwoman1863

1822 New Monthly Mag. 6 414/2 She was, in fact, the prettiest young Bush-girl I had yet seen.

1963 W. Soyinka Lion & Jewel 9 Bush-girl you are, bush-girl you'll always be; Uncivilized and primitive—bush-girl!

bush-hand n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker

stockman1806

ranchero1825

ranchman1854

bush-hand1863

station hand1863

jackeroo1864

boundary-rider1865

bush-rider1883

ringer1909

bush-worker1936

stock-boy1937

jillaroo1945

1863 S. Butler First Year Canterbury Settl. x. 147 How many hands shall you want? We will say a couple of good bush hands, who will put up your hut and yards and wool-shed.

1867 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) xxi. 183 First came two of the most experienced ‘bush-hands’.

bush-hut n.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of

lonquhardc1480

hothouse1643

ajoupa1666

penthouse1683

pandal?1692

bark-hut1744

log-tent1748

log cabin1770

bush-hut1775

log-hut1778

yurt1780

isba1784

beach hut1806

whare1807

bough-house1811

pondok1815

grass hut1818

hartebeest house1818

leaf hut1818

gunyah1820

grass house1823

slab-and-bark hut1826

slab-and-shingle hut1826

slab whare1826

rondavel1829

bush-house1835

skerm1835

jacal1838

toldo1839

log-shanty1847

wurley1847

maloca1853

palm hut1853

whare1853

hutmenta1857

bush-shanty1857

benab1860

pondokkie1862

bothan1863

lanaia1869

hogan1872

tenta1873

beehive-hut1884

leaf shelter1886

Oklahoma1889

goondie1890

cabana1898

troolie hut1899

tukul1901

fale1902

banda1908

kya1909

hut1913

obi1913

Nissen hut1917

Nissen1919

basha1921

tourist cabin1928

bunkie1935

wanigan1937

Quonset hut1942

chickee1943

iron lung1943

Quonset1943

1775 S. Thayer Jrnl. (1867) 12 Our troops..had not the satisfaction..to build..a Bush hut to pass the tedious night in.

1867 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) xxi. 181 The mistress of this charming bush-hut insisted on our having some hot coffee.

1885 R. C. Praed Austral. Life iii. 73 The usual bush hut of slabs and bark.

bush-inn n.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > inn

guest housec1000

innc1230

hostry1377

host1382

harbergeryc1384

hostelc1384

hostelryc1386

harbergagea1400

hostelar1424

hostagec1440

innsc1550

host-house1570

fondaco1599

change1609

auberge1615

sporting house1615

albergo1617

rancho1648

change-housea1653

posada1652

public house1655

inn-house1677

funduq1684

locanda1770

fonda1777

livery tavern1787

roadhouse1806

meson1817

tambo1830

gasthaus1834

estalagem1835

caravanserai1848

temperance inna1849

sala1871

bush-inn1881

ryokan1914

B & B1918

pousada1949

minshuku1970

1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. 59 The driver paused before a bush inn.

bush-knot n.

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1880 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland viii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 76/1 Holding the long sweeping tail, tangled in a huge bush-knot.

bush-land n.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of

ripplelOE

wildwooda1122

rough1332

firth?a1400

tod stripec1446

osiard1509

bush1523

bush-ground1523

fritha1552

island1638

oak landc1658

pinelandc1658

piney wood1666

broom-land1707

pine barrenc1721

pine savannah1735

savannah1735

thick woods1754

scrub-land1779

olive wood1783

primeval forest1789

open wood1790

strong woods1792

scrub1805

oak flata1816

sertão1816

sprout-land1824

flatwoods1841

bush-land1842

tall timber1845

amber forest1846

caatinga1846

mahogany scrub1846

bush-flat1847

myall country1847

national forest1848

selva1849

monte1851

virgin forest1851

bush-country1855

savannah forest1874

bush-range1879

bushveld1879

protection forest1889

mulga1896

wood-bush1896

shinnery1901

fringing forest1903

monsoon forest1903

rainforest1903

savannah woodland1903

thorn forest1903

tropical rainforest1903

gallery forest1920

cloud forest1922

rain jungle1945

mato1968

1842 C. Heaphy Narr. Residence N.Z. viii. 103 The bush land will be cleared with less..expense than at Wellington.

1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. xlvii. 366 All the Bush-land..was on fire.

1868 C. W. Dilke Greater Brit. II. iii. ii. 14 Tropical bush-lands in which sheep-farming is impossible.

bush-life n.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > way of life > [noun] > specific > life in the bush

bush-life1849

1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons xvii. ci, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 391/2 The memory of that wild Bush-life.

bush-line n.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > edge or limit of

rimeOE

skirt1598

bush-line1889

1889 R. Paulin Wild West Coast N.Z. xiv. 119 Fresh snow..came down to within 2000 feet of sea level—i.e., considerably below the bush-line.

1955 J. K. Baxter Fire & Anvil iii. 58 A hut above the bush-line of the Southern Alps.

bush-range n.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > grassland > range

range1640

buffalo-range1775

open range1853

bush-range1879

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of

ripplelOE

wildwooda1122

rough1332

firth?a1400

tod stripec1446

osiard1509

bush1523

bush-ground1523

fritha1552

island1638

oak landc1658

pinelandc1658

piney wood1666

broom-land1707

pine barrenc1721

pine savannah1735

savannah1735

thick woods1754

scrub-land1779

olive wood1783

primeval forest1789

open wood1790

strong woods1792

scrub1805

oak flata1816

sertão1816

sprout-land1824

flatwoods1841

bush-land1842

tall timber1845

amber forest1846

caatinga1846

mahogany scrub1846

bush-flat1847

myall country1847

national forest1848

selva1849

monte1851

virgin forest1851

bush-country1855

savannah forest1874

bush-range1879

bushveld1879

protection forest1889

mulga1896

wood-bush1896

shinnery1901

fringing forest1903

monsoon forest1903

rainforest1903

savannah woodland1903

thorn forest1903

tropical rainforest1903

gallery forest1920

cloud forest1922

rain jungle1945

mato1968

1879 T. W. Gudgeon Reminisc. War N.Z. xii. 70 Allowing the Hauhaus to erect a strong pah in the bush-ranges.

bush-rider n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker

stockman1806

ranchero1825

ranchman1854

bush-hand1863

station hand1863

jackeroo1864

boundary-rider1865

bush-rider1883

ringer1909

bush-worker1936

stock-boy1937

jillaroo1945

1883 Field 10 Feb. 199 The tremendous stock whips of the Australian bush-riders.

bush-school n.

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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > hedge- or bush-school

hedge-school1807

bush-school1852

1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes III. ii. 61 The humble hedge-school—or rather bush-school..—and a crowd of flaxen..children rushing from its porch.

1896 H. Lawson While Billy Boils 1 You remember when we hurried home from the old bush school.

1936 G. Greene Journey without Maps ii. 97 Even in the Sierra Leone Protectorate..most natives..will attend a bush school.

1942 J. S. Huxley in Polit. Q. XIII. 395 Over most of Africa..not 10 per cent of the schools are anything but the most primitive sub-elementary bush-schools, confining themselves to hymn-singing, the catechism, and the rudiments of the three R's.

bush-shanty n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of

lonquhardc1480

hothouse1643

ajoupa1666

penthouse1683

pandal?1692

bark-hut1744

log-tent1748

log cabin1770

bush-hut1775

log-hut1778

yurt1780

isba1784

beach hut1806

whare1807

bough-house1811

pondok1815

grass hut1818

hartebeest house1818

leaf hut1818

gunyah1820

grass house1823

slab-and-bark hut1826

slab-and-shingle hut1826

slab whare1826

rondavel1829

bush-house1835

skerm1835

jacal1838

toldo1839

log-shanty1847

wurley1847

maloca1853

palm hut1853

whare1853

hutmenta1857

bush-shanty1857

benab1860

pondokkie1862

bothan1863

lanaia1869

hogan1872

tenta1873

beehive-hut1884

leaf shelter1886

Oklahoma1889

goondie1890

cabana1898

troolie hut1899

tukul1901

fale1902

banda1908

kya1909

hut1913

obi1913

Nissen hut1917

Nissen1919

basha1921

tourist cabin1928

bunkie1935

wanigan1937

Quonset hut1942

chickee1943

iron lung1943

Quonset1943

1857 S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 169 Crop crept close alongside of me, in our bush-shanty.

1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms III. xi. 161 Like a man in..a bush shanty, not likely to wake before sunrise.

1924 H. T. Gibson That Gibbie Galoot 66 Most bush shanties possess such a butt.

bush-track n.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > through bush

bush road1827

bush-track1832

1832 New S. Wales Cal. & G.P.O. Directory 51 Several bush tracks lead to the farms.

1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee i. 17 He..catches his father's favourite mare..and drives like mad over the five miles of rough bush track.

1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 12 It was the shooter going to work, following a bush track that skirted the box flat.

bush-walking n. and adj.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking on specific type of terrain

bog-trotting1762

bush-walking1853

tabbing1982

yomping1982

1853 in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 133 Beyond it there are two miles of bush walking along what is called ‘a line’.

1957 Times 2 Dec. 9/6 Four members of a bushwalking club who were burnt to death when trapped by a bush fire in the Blue Mountains yesterday.

1959 Times 23 Sept. 1/4 Experience in out-door life such as skiing..bushwalking.

bush-walk n.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking on specific type of terrain > an act of

bush-walk1956

1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 196 Nothing deters young hikers from going bare-legged on bushwalks.

bush-walker n.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > on specific type of terrain

bog-trotter1700

bush-walker1955

1955 Times 21 June 9/5 Four hundred soldiers, police and bush-walkers..are searching 5,000 ft Mount Baw Baw for Mihran Haig.

bush-work n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > type or spell of work or payment

plough-tail?1523

threaving1768

rounds1795

tut1800

yoking1812

bush-work1830

stoop labour1943

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii. xi. 167 I knew as little of bush-work as any other store-keeper or mechanic.

1852 Fraser's Mag. 45 240 The sort of service that fits..for the bush-work of the Cape.

bush-worker n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker

stockman1806

ranchero1825

ranchman1854

bush-hand1863

station hand1863

jackeroo1864

boundary-rider1865

bush-rider1883

ringer1909

bush-worker1936

stock-boy1937

jillaroo1945

1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King v. 41 He found a fair sale from travelling bush-workers.

d. (Extended use of sense 9, passing into adj.) Crude; rough and ready; without the formal training or qualifications usually considered necessary for an occupation.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined

boistousc1300

untheweda1325

uplandisha1387

unaffiled1390

rudea1393

knavishc1405

peoplisha1425

clubbedc1440

blunt1477

lob?1507

robust1511

borel1513

carterly1519

clubbish1530

rough?1531

rustical?1532

incondite1539

agrestc1550

rusticc1550

brute1555

lobcocka1556

loutisha1556

carterlike1561

boorish1562

ruggedc1565

lobbish1567

loutlike1567

sowish1570

clownish1581

unrefined1582

impolished1583

homespun1590

transalpinea1592

swaddish1593

unpolished1594

untutored1595

swabberly1596

tartarous1602

porterly1603

lobcocked1606

lob-like1606

cluster-fisted1611

agrestic1617

inurbane1623

unelevated1627

incult1628

unbrushed1640

vulgar1643

unhewed1644

unsmooth1648

hirsute1658

loutardly1658

unhewn1659

roughsome?c1660

sordid1668

inhumanea1680

coarse1699

brutal1709

ramgunshoch1721

tramontane1740

uncouth1740

no-nationa1756

unurbane1760

turnipy1792

rudas1802

common1804

cubbish1819

clodhopping1828

vulgarian1833

cloddish1844

unkempt1846

bush1851

vulgarish1860

rodney1866

crude1876

ignorant1886

yobby1910

nekulturny1932

oikish1959

yobbish1966

ocker1972

down and dirty1977

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > having no qualification > not adequately qualified

underqualified1624

bush1851

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > not displaying technical skill > not elaborately made

rustic1600

uncurious1605

incurious1615

rural1624

inelaborate1650

bush1851

1851 E. J. Wakefield Let. to Sir G. Grey 31 The stock-owner, though brought up as a gentleman, if he lives long in the ‘bush’, learns first to be proud of the ‘bush’ manners, and then becomes unfit for any but ‘bush’ society.

1870 R. P. Whitworth Martin's Bay Settlement 48/2 I found..tied to a stick (a bush candlestick), about two inches of candle.

1873 M. A. Barker Station Amusem. N.Z. vi. 101 He was what is called a bush-carpenter: i.e. a wandering carpenter, who travels from station to station, doing any little odd jobs wanted.

1873 M. A. Barker Station Amusem. N.Z. ix. 150 A bush doctor..was likely to be round by Simmons', cos o' his missus.

1891 G. Chamier Philosopher Dick I. vi. 141 The table was laid in regular bush style, with tin plates and pannikins, iron forks and spoons.

1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee ix. 115 Pilkins' gate, a skilful piece of rough bush carpentry, swinging on a wooden pivot.

1933 E. Jones Autobiogr. Early Settler xi. 52 As it was too far to get a tradesman up for any repairs, we were all, what was called, ‘Bush Carpenters’.

1944 Return to Attack (Army Board, N.Z.) 9/2 Any available timber was turned into ingenious bush furniture.

1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 114 I..put nine stitches in his [sc. the dog's] side with a pack-needle and string... He recovered..from both the wound and the bush surgery.

C2. Special combinations. See also bush-buck n., bush-fighter n., etc.

† bush adder n. Obsolete (see quot., and cf. boske addre n. at bosk n. Derivatives).

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake) > that lives in woods or trees

wood-snake1585

bush adder1611

tree-serpent1731

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Dryophis

wood-snake1585

bush adder1611

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Anguille de bois..the bush Adder, or wood snake.

bush antelope n. ? = bush-buck n.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Tragelaphinae > genus Tragelaphus (tragelaph) > Tragelaphus scriptus (bush-buck)

guib1774

wood-goat1785

bosch-bok1786

harnessed antelopec1789

wood-deer1812

bush antelope1834

bush-buck1852

bush-goat1865

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 81/1 The Bush Antelope (A. silvicultrix), called bush-goat by the English residents at Sierra Leone.

bush-baby n. an African lemur of the species Galago senegalensis.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > [noun] > member of suborder Prosimii (lemurs, etc.) > family Lorisidae > genus Galago (bush-baby)

galago1817

gum-animal1840

bush-baby1901

1901 A. R. R. Turnbull Tales from Natal 81 The occasional cry of a bush-baby alone broke the awful silence.

1928 Daily Tel. 15 May 14/3 Two bush babies, the pets of Baroness de Tuyll.

bush baptist n. slang (chiefly Australian and New Zealand) (see quot. 1959).

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society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > atheism > [noun] > person

wanbelieverc1440

unbeliever1526

infidela1530

nullifidian1564

atheist1571

sceptic1638

disbeliever1648

non-believer1649

scorner1651

scoffer1691

sceptic-Christian1711

nothingarian1776

nothingist1797

no-religionist1827

nihilist1854

netheist1855

non-theist1857

agnostic1869

nescient1872

post-Christian1886

bush baptist1902

no-Goddite1952

1902 J. Milne Epist. Atkins i. 18 Nothing is left to the imagination by the corporal who ranks himself among ‘Bush Baptists and other fancy religions’, in order to evade Sunday Service.

1959 S. J. Baker Drum 97 Bush Baptist, a person of dubious religious persuasion or one who has no religious persuasion at all. Rare.

bush basil n. Ocymum minimum.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > other labiate plants

dictamnusOE

MarrubiumOE

dittany1552

water horehound1578

bush basil1597

gypsy herb1726

Perilla1783

gypsywort1787

Malabar catmint1813

chia1832

nettle geranium1860

gas plant1863

coleus1885

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 547 Bush Basill, or fine Basill, is a low and base plant.

bush-bean n. the American name for the Kidney bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris).

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > kidney beans or kidney bean plants

French bean1542

kidney bean1548

fasels1562

frijoles1568

Welsh bean1585

longbean1587

cock stone1631

haricot1653

string-bean1759

snap-bean1770

bunch-bean1787

butter bean1820

bush-bean1821

snaps1845

navy bean1851

cannellini1862

flageolet1877

wax bean1905

pinto bean1913

wax-pod bean1921

borlotti1932

1821 Plough Boy II. 358/3 An opinion prevails here (Columbus, Ohio) that our soil is too rich, for the profitable culture of the bush bean, (called, I believe, at the eastward, the fisher bean).

1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 518 We usually plant bush beans in garden drills.

1887 Harper's Mag. Jan. 307/2 Those who need much instruction in regard to bush-beans should remain in the city.

bush-beater n. (a) = bushwhacker n. 1; (b) (cf. sense to beat the bush at sense 1b (figurative)).

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1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. iv. 108 Such was the legion of sturdy bush-beaters that poured into the grand gate of New Amsterdam.

1897 W. C. Hazlitt Ourselves v. 64 [Girls at bazaar] Many bush-beaters, one hare-catcher—the dear, good rector!

† bush-bill n. Obsolete ? a bill-hook.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > bill hook

wood-billc725

billc1000

falsartc1380

wood-hookc1440

falchion1483

forest-bill1488

bush-scythe1552

brush-bill1588

cutting-bill1601

bill-hook1611

hook-bill1613

bush-bill1631

hack1846

snagger1847

slasher1858

bush-hook1860

slash-hook1891

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes v. §11. 421 Such men are more fit..to carrie a bush-bill rather then a battell-axe.

bushboy n. a native Australian or South African bushman.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of

bushboya1834

Melbournite1838

Melburnian1838

bushman1846

Vandemonian1852

scrubber1859

Queenslander1860

Victorian1862

Sydneysider1865

Centralian1875

Waler1880

Territorian1882

mutton-bird1892

bushy1896

sand-groper1896

tothersider1896

crow-eater1899

Bananalander1900

outbacker1900

Tassie1905

groper1924

Tasmanian1934

mutton-bird eater1941

Top-Ender1941

Kanakalander1945

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > countries or regions

Angolan1600

Angola1653

Malay1765

South African1806

Ngwaketsea1832

bushboya1834

Kapenaar1834

Transkeian1847

bosch-man1849

Natalian1850

burgher1879

Transvaaler1887

veldman1895

Rhodesian1897

Vaalpens1899

backvelder1911

plattelander1934

southwester1960

Zimbabwean1961

Zambian1963

Botswanian1966

Botswanan1967

Namibian1968

Ciskeian1973

Sowetan1974

a1834 T. Pringle Poet. Wks. (1839) 8 Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side.

1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. vii. 129 I found a funny little fellow in the shape of the Bushboy before alluded to awaiting my arrival.

1899 J. Milne Romance of Pro-Consul xiv. 149 He would..shoulder his rifle, and start off, with a couple of bush-boys for gillies.

Bush Brotherhood n. a society of missionaries, clerical and lay, established to evangelize the inhabitants of the Australian bush.

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society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts > collectively > specific

Bush Brotherhood1903

1903 Daily Chron. 7 Nov. 5/5 Founding a Bush Brotherhood under the direction of the Bishop.

Bush Brother n.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > bush brother > [noun]

Bush Brother1930

1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Mar. 31/2 The Bush Brother turned out to be a woman, born in Queensland.

1950 ‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice 315 They were married by a travelling Church of England priest, one of the Bush Brothers.

bush burn n. New Zealand the burning of bush on cultivable land; land so cleared.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > reclaimed or improved land

carrc1330

improvement1473

polder1602

dam1629

innam1662

inningsa1669

beaver meadow1784

slobland1843

polderland1849

bush burn1861

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > burning off refuse

burrow1602

denshiring1607

burning1669

burn-baking1769

burn1792

burning off1800

burnbeating1808

stifle-burning1844

burn-off1861

bush burn1861

bush-burning1898

slash-burning1919

1861 W. Morgan Jrnl. 27 Apr. (1963) iii. 29 Last week sowed some grass seed on bush burn.

1900 J. G. Wilson in Rep. Agric. Societies N.Z. 132 On bush-burns, if sown at the rate of a few pounds per acre [cocksfoot] rapidly takes possession.

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Dec. 508/3 Thousands of acres were ploughed (much of it after a bush burn).

1964 Weekly News (Auckland) 22 Jan. 39/2 To burn everything cleanly but the heavy trunks is so important to the success of a bush burn.

bush-burning n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > burning off refuse

burrow1602

denshiring1607

burning1669

burn-baking1769

burn1792

burning off1800

burnbeating1808

stifle-burning1844

burn-off1861

bush burn1861

bush-burning1898

slash-burning1919

1898 J. Bell In Shadow of Bush xxx. 198 The season promised to be a good one for bush-burning.

bush canary n. the popular name of various birds in Australia and New Zealand (see quots.).

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Acanthizinae > genus Mohua

yellowhead1773

bush canary1904

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Acanthizinae > genus Gerygone

warbler1790

rainbird1817

riroriro1835

fly-eater1895

bush-warbler1898

bush canary1904

1904 F. W. Hutton & J. Drummond Animals N.Z. ii. 91 The Bush Canary. Mohua ochrocephala... The New Zealand Canary has a sharp, strident call, and its movements are quick and active.

1918 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Feb. Red Page 4 White-throated Flyeater (Bush Canary) and other members of the genus Gerygone.

1936 H. Guthrie-Smith Sorrows & Joys N.Z. Naturalist viii. 67 The rain-forests beloved of the Bush Canary.

1946 J. C. Andersen in Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. June 154 Mohua, a gregarious bird (Mohoua ochrocephala), South Island form of the bush-canary, the North Island form (Mohoua albicilla) being upokotea.

bush-car n. (see quot. 1926).

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > used in the bush

bush-dray1848

bush-car1921

1921 Rec. Home & Foreign Mission Wk. United Free Church Scotl. Apr. 116/1 She left at midday in a bush-car.

1926 Rec. Home & Foreign Mission Wk. United Free Church Scotl. May 227/1 The bush-car is an arm-chair placed high above one wheel, excellent for the narrow paths and high grass of Africa.

bush-cat n. the Serval or Tiger-cat of South Africa.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Felis > felis serval (serval)

leopard cat1773

serval1775

bush-cat1780

1780 Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 2 The common Bush-cat of the Cape.

1780 Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 3 Kolbe..speaks of a Tyger Bush-cat, which he describes as the largest of all the Wild Cats of the Cape-countries.

bush-chat n. a bird, one of the Chats or Saxicolæ.

bush cow n. (a) a wild cow of the bush; (b) the tapir.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) > [noun] > with hoof in more than two parts > family Tapiridae (tapir)

ante1596

dante1601

mountain cow1699

tapir1774

bush cow1847

tapiridian1880

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Bovinae (bovine) > [noun] > wild

oxOE

buglea1382

oryxa1382

buff1552

reem1607

bran1688

bush cow1847

1847 A. Harris Settlers & Convicts xiv. 287 On a new farm..the stockyard..is necessary for milking bush cows.

1851 W. H. Brett Indian Missions Guiana 37 The tapir or maipuri, called the bush-cow by the settlers.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 734 The bush cow came on, and drove its horns through his thigh.

bushcraft n. skill in matters pertaining to life in the bush.

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1871 C. L. Money Knocking about in N.Z. iii. 29 He gave me my first lessons in bushcraft such as a knowledge of edible roots, modes of crossing rivers, snaring birds.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 22 July 4/2 Leichardt perished..because he lacked the rudiments of bushcraft.

1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxvi. 324 Real scouting and bush-craft will always be part of the station life.

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bush-creepers n. a group of tropical birds belonging to the family of the Warblers.

bush dassie n. a South African hyrax, Dendrohyrax arboreus arboreus; also attributive.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > [noun] > order Hyracoidea or genus Procavia > other types of

bush dassie1911

1911 East London Daily Dispatch (S. Afr.) 20 Dec. 5 Bush dassie flesh was the staple food for the Hottentots.

bush deer n. in West Africa, a gazelle.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Antilopinae > genus Gazella (gazelle)

gazelle1600

bush deer1897

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 734 He..put his net into the forest, and caught bush deer (gazelles).

bush dog n. (see quot.).

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > other types

red wolf1823

hill-fox1838

kuri1838

zorro1838

Falkland Island wolf1857

bush dog1883

guara1884

1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 438/2 Icticyon, with one small species, Canis venaticus, the Bush Dog, from Guiana and Brazil.

bush-draining n. the draining of land by trenches filled with brushwood.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage

gutteringc1420

strand1565

sewaging1610

thorough-draining1669

cuniculus1670

French drain1738

riggot?1746

bush-draining1748

surface drain1765

land-drain1767

pipe-draining1776

surface draining1777

fox1784

surface drainage1796

mole drain1804

soughing1808

acequia1811

well-draining1818

tile-draining1830

wedge-draining?1830

plug-draining1833

land-drainage1841

land-draining1841

mole-draining1842

trough gutter1856

mole-ditching1860

mole drainage1860

tile-drainagea1865

well point1867

karez1875

storm sewer1887

moling1943

tiling1943

storm drain1960

1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) II. 173 These last cold and wet Lands have been..greatly improv'd by draining off the Rain-water..an Invention, called Bush-draining.

bush-dray n. Australian (see quot.).

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > used in the bush

bush-dray1848

bush-car1921

1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. v. 48 The bush-dray, the only vehicle used in New South Wales for the conveyance of wool and other produce, is open and low, more resembling a brewer's dray than any other description of dray known in England.

bush-drive n. a drive of game in the South African bush.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > beating, etc.

stablyc1400

ring-walk1575

breviting1600

battue1816

beat1876

bush-drive1899

1899 Proc. Zool. Soc. 831 At the bush-drives so common in the [Cape] Colony, Blue-buck are seldom turned out.

bush eel n. (see quots.).

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] > snake

bush eel1828

1828 W. Hone Table Bk. II. 224 At this season when persons, at inns in Lincolnshire, ask for ‘eel pie’, they are presently provided with ‘bush eels’; namely snakes, caught for that purpose in the bushes.

1965 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Snakes vii. 160 In hard times the grass snake and other species were eaten as ‘hedge eels’ or ‘bush eels’.

bush-faller n. one who cuts down timber in the Bush.

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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

1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 June 2/1 A broken-down, deserted shanty, inhabited once, perhaps, by rail-splitters, or bush-fallers.

bush-falling n. the felling of trees in the bush.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > felling trees

fallinga1425

felling1447

fell1531

fall1535

woodfall1588

slaughter1657

logging1706

tree-felling1759

fallage1788

slashing1822

fellage1839

wood-cutting1872

throw1879

bush-falling1882

drive1899

bushwhacking1906

clear-cutting1922

coupe1922

landnam1950

1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. 184 We worked steadily at bush-falling.

1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxii. 203 Bush-falling had barely been started.

bush flea n. South African a variety of Pulex.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Siphonaptera or fleas > [noun] > member of genus pulex

bush flea1899

1899 G. Russell Hist. Old Durban 503 The Bush Flea..is quite content to share your camp blanket if you do not resent his liberty of action.

bush-fly n. an Australian blowfly of the family Calliphoridæ.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > member of

flesh-fly1388

butcher fly1633

blowfly1729

yellow-bottle1855

bush-fly1934

1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. xxvii. 172 No sooner were the bush-flies at rest than plagues of sand-flies would rise up to take their places.

1952 M. Boyd Cardboard Crown v. 85 The room..was thick with the buzzing of bush-flies, a species of blow-fly.

bush-goat n. = bush-buck n.; a South African warbler, Camaroptera brachyura.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of

tailor-bird1769

rubythroat1783

bush-goat1865

Cetti's warbler1875

tree-warbler1881

gnat-catcher1883

crombec1901

wren-warbler1924

guib1774

wood-goat1785

bosch-bok1786

harnessed antelopec1789

wood-deer1812

bush antelope1834

bush-buck1852

bush-goat1865

1865 Athenæum No. 1948. 279/1 A new species of Bush-goat.

1908 A. K. Haagner & R. H. Ivy Sketches S. Afr. Bird-life 79 This Warbler is called the Bush-goat on account of the plaintive goat-like call to which the bird gives utterance.

bush gourd n. the squash gourd, Cucurbita melopepo.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash

melon-pompion1577

simnel1640

squash1643

cushaw1698

simlin1775

squash-pumpkin1819

squash gourd1823

summer crookneck1832

melon pumpkin1840

bush gourd1842

crook-neck1844

Hubbard squash1868

mirliton1901

butternut pumpkin1916

buttercup1930

butternut1940

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 605 The Squash-melon pumpkin, or bush gourd.

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bush-grass n. Calamagrostis epigejos.

bush-hawk n. the New Zealand falcon, Falco novæseelandiæ.

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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > other types of

carrion-kite1581

chickenhawk?a1775

New Zealand falcon1781

shaheen1839

falconet1851

prairie falcon1858

Eleonora falcon1859

quail hawk1873

bush-hawk1882

longwing1964

1882 W. L. Buller Man. Birds N.Z. 2 The Bush-Hawk is generally met with on the outskirts of the woods.

1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 54 No Kestrel is found in New Zealand, but an approach to the form is made by the very peculiar Hieracidea (or Harpe) novæ-zelandiæ..the ‘Sparrow-Hawk’, ‘Quail-Hawk’, and ‘Bush-Hawk’ of the colonists.

bush-hen n. New Zealand the weka, Gallirallus australis.

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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > gallirallus ausralis (weka)

water hen1770

wood-hen1773

weka1845

ocydrome1884

bush-hen1939

1939 J. Mulgan Man Alone 80 Bush-hens were calling across the valley.

bush-hog n. a wild pig of South Africa, the bosch-vaark of the colonists.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > genus Potamochoerus (African bush-pig)

wood-swine1785

Guinea hog1788

river hog1803

bosch-vark1834

bush-pig1840

bush-hog1854

red river hog1868

1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 66 By good luck we came on a bush-hog.

bush-hook n. a bill-hook (U.S.).

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > bill hook

wood-billc725

billc1000

falsartc1380

wood-hookc1440

falchion1483

forest-bill1488

bush-scythe1552

brush-bill1588

cutting-bill1601

bill-hook1611

hook-bill1613

bush-bill1631

hack1846

snagger1847

slasher1858

bush-hook1860

slash-hook1891

1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career iv. 55 The old man took down a bush-hook that hung upon a post near the mill.

1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 44/1 Shrubs that..had run the gauntlet of the bush-hook.

bush-house n. a house or hut in the bush; in Australia, also one in a (suburban) garden.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of

lonquhardc1480

hothouse1643

ajoupa1666

penthouse1683

pandal?1692

bark-hut1744

log-tent1748

log cabin1770

bush-hut1775

log-hut1778

yurt1780

isba1784

beach hut1806

whare1807

bough-house1811

pondok1815

grass hut1818

hartebeest house1818

leaf hut1818

gunyah1820

grass house1823

slab-and-bark hut1826

slab-and-shingle hut1826

slab whare1826

rondavel1829

bush-house1835

skerm1835

jacal1838

toldo1839

log-shanty1847

wurley1847

maloca1853

palm hut1853

whare1853

hutmenta1857

bush-shanty1857

benab1860

pondokkie1862

bothan1863

lanaia1869

hogan1872

tenta1873

beehive-hut1884

leaf shelter1886

Oklahoma1889

goondie1890

cabana1898

troolie hut1899

tukul1901

fale1902

banda1908

kya1909

hut1913

obi1913

Nissen hut1917

Nissen1919

basha1921

tourist cabin1928

bunkie1935

wanigan1937

Quonset hut1942

chickee1943

iron lung1943

Quonset1943

1835 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major (new ed.) xli. 367 Saratogue, for politicians, is jist like the bush-houses for killing pigeons.

1901 F. Campbell Love ix. 133 Let us have ices in the bush-house.

1902 W. Satchell Land of Lost xviii. 164 ‘Come around to the bush-house.’.. They seated themselves together on a rustic seat among the ferns.

1939 J. Cary Mister Johnson 11 The station..consists of six old bush houses, with blackened thatch reaching almost to the ground.

1959 ‘M. Neville’ Sweet Night for Murder xviii. 175 The bush-house..was made of brushwood and housed seed boxes..indoor plants, and bulbs under sacks waiting for planting.

bush honeysuckle n. name for the shrubs of the genus Diervilla, nearly allied to the common honeysuckle, natives of North America and Japan.

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1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 232 Diervilla..humilis (bush honeysuckle).

1883 Amer. Naturalist 17 888 When the fruit of the bush honeysuckle..began to ripen in June, the old birds visited the shrub often and ate very freely of the berries.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 24/2 A screen of bush honeysuckle along the road, a little pool, and a few hemlocks..furnish the main accessories.

2004 Nat. New Eng. Winter 8/3 Invasive shrubs such as common buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica, and bush honeysuckle..are transforming areas of forest understory.

bush jacket n. a belted cotton jacket.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jacket > made of specific material

cork-jacket1762

zamarra1841

worsted1905

Cossack1919

bush jacket1939

leathers1962

puffa1975

1939 M. B. Picken Lang. Fashion 16/1 Bush jacket or coat, belted, hip-length jacket.

1959 ‘M. Derby’ Tigress ii. 62 He took the plastic flask from his bush-jacket pocket.

1961 Listener 24 Aug. 292/2 The familiar picture of Fidel Castro with beard, bush-jacket and peak-cap.

bush-lawyer n. (a) the New Zealand Bramble ( Rubus australis); (b) Australian and New Zealand, a layman who fancies he has a knowledge of law; an argumentative person; see also quot. 1874.

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society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > legal knowledge or skill > one who fancies himself knowledgeable

bush-lawyer1853

barrack-room lawyer1943

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > bramble or blackberry bush

bramblec1000

bramble-brierc1000

bremberOE

brierc1000

hound's thornc1420

bramec1425

blackberry?1550

bramble-bush1579

stone bramble1744

raunce1840

bush-lawyer1853

lawyer1857

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > mining agent

bush-lawyer1853

1853 Fraser's Mag. 48 258 Half dead with their long struggle against the ‘bush-lawyer’, a tough and tangled bramble.

1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences xvi. 225 The bush lawyers, or mining agents, which is the name they accept,..are of great use to the diggers.

1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 13 A ‘bush’ carpenter is a very admirable person, when he is not also a bush lawyer.

1926 ‘J. Doone’ Timely Tips for New Australians Gloss. Bush-lawyer, a man who gratuitously voices legal opinions although possessing no qualifications for doing so.

1933 N. Scanlan Tides of Youth viii. 91 You're a regular bush-lawyer.

1948 B. James in Coast to Coast 1947 168 Mrs. Bolton loved the touch of legality, being a good deal of a bush lawyer.

1948 V. Palmer Golconda iv. 29 It's easier to find a bush-lawyer than a man who's bent his back at all sorts of jobs.

bush-light n. U.S. (see quot.).

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1838 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron 82 A bush-light was flaming near Jaque's habitation. [Note] A fire of light wood kindled on a small mound of earth.

bushloper n. U.S. one who tramps through the bush or wilderness, a pedlar.

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1893 E. Eggleston Duffels Pref. p. iii The outfit of this young ‘bushloper’, as such a man was called in the still earlier Dutch period.

bush-magpie n. an Australian crow-shrike of the genus Gymnorhina.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Cracticidae > gymnorhina tibicen

magpie1792

piping crow1832

organ bird1847

flute-bird1862

bush-magpie1890

maggie1901

1890 E. E. Morris Cassell's Picturesque Australasia II. 235 The College precincts are sacred to the classic muse and the omnipresent bush-magpie.

bush-master n. a very venomous South American snake.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > member of genus Lachesis (bush-master)

labaria1825

bush-master1826

mapepire1838

surucucu1845

palm viper1896

1826 Edinb. Rev. 43 300 The most venomous of reptiles, and known by the name of the bush-master.

1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 267 The couni-couchi, or bush-master, is the most dreaded of all the South American snakes.

bush-meeting n. U.S. (see quot.).

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1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Bush meeting, a gathering in the woods for the purpose of open-air preaching, and other religious exercises.

bush nurse n. a qualified nurse who is ‘on call’ in the remote districts of Australia.

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > in Australia

bush nurse1933

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 28 June 20/4 He was under the bush nurse for a fortnight.

bush partridge n. a South African name of a species of francolin, Francolinus subtorquatus.

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1909 South Afr. Field 30 July 141 My companions called it (Coquifrancolin) the bush partridge.

bush-pig n. (a) a species of South African swine, Potamochœrus porcus koiropotamus; (b) New Zealand a wild pig.

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wood-swine1785

Guinea hog1788

river hog1803

bosch-vark1834

bush-pig1840

bush-hog1854

red river hog1868

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > sus scrofa (wild boar and descendants) > wild boar

evereOE

swineOE

boarc1000

wild boar?c1225

wilrone1508

bush-pig1840

wild pig1840

tusker1859

Captain Cooker1879

1840 J. S. Polack Manners & Customs New Zealanders II. 270 The narrator had been hunting the cochon maron or bush-pig.

1844 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Mauritius & S. Afr. 213 The Bosch Vark, Bush Pig.

1907 W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 20 Mutton down to the price of bush-pig.

1910 J. Buchan Prester John xiv. 230 I was inclined to think him a very large bush-pig.

bush pilot n. the pilot of an aeroplane which flies over sparsely inhabited country (chiefly North American).

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society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > person in control of aircraft or spacecraft > person in control of aircraft > other aeroplane pilots

test pilot1917

airline pilot1922

bush pilot1936

brown shoe1946

tug pilot1948

1936 Beaver Mar. 52/2 The northern bush pilot is dependent solely on his own good judgement, resourcefulness and initiative.

1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway ix. 243 The pilot was to be a civilian bush-pilot called Hennessey, a thick-set tough who knew that country [sc. Labrador] intimately.

1948 Shell Aviation News cxxv. 2/1 The small aircraft, usually single-engined, flown by the bush pilot.

bush poppy n. either of two poppies which grow as shrubs, native to California: Romneya coulteri (with large white flowers), and Dendromecon rigida (with yellow flowers); also called tree poppy.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > American or West Indian

ramgoat bush1566

burton-wood1697

cowage cherry1725

Jack-in-the-busha1726

screw tree1739

lady of the night1752

goatweed1756

solandra1797

silk-tassel1833

garrya1835

matico1839

choisya1840

Romneya1845

jointer1847

creosote-bush1851

creosote-plant1854

bridal wreath1856

ocotillo1856

adelaster1863

sage rose1864

white horse1864

tree poppy1866

Tacsonia1869

rain tree1877

piquillin bush1884

tassel-bush1891

bush poppy1899

Mexican orange1923

shrimp plant1941

1899 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 3) Romneya (White Bush Poppy).

1900 W. D. Drury Bk. Gardening 281 Californian Bush Poppy.

1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 51 A marked plant is the bush poppy (Dendromecon rigidum).

bush-quail n. (a) a hemipod n.; (b) an Indian bird of the genus Perdicula (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1893).

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > miscellaneous members

gold pheasant1765

white-eared1780

cheer1826

tragopan1829

koklass1864

tree-partridge1864

wood-quail1891

bush-quail1893

swamp quail1895

the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > member of family Turnicidae > genus Turnix (button-quail)

Turnix1819

quail1848

buttonquail1854

hemipod1862

bush-quail1893

1893 H. A. Bryden Gun & Camera Southern Afr. 158 Tiny bush-quail (Turnix lepurana), dainty creatures, scarcely bigger than sparrows.

1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 625/1 The so-called ‘bush quails’ of India (Perdicula) are dwarf partridges.

bush-rat n. a popular name for many small rodents.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Neotema (wood-rat)

wood-rat1767

bush-rat1867

trade rat1876

trading rat1881

pack rat1885

rock rat1781

rock mouse1843

pouched mouse1853

coffee-rat1859

bush-rat1867

brown-footed rat1884

rex1928

1867 E. Coues in Amer. Naturalist 1 399 The Bush Rat (Neotoma Mexicana) is abundant throughout the Territory [sc. Arizona].

1890 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1889 22 301 On the habits of the New Zealand Bush-rat (Mus maorium).

1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxii. 213 There were bush rats and water rats.

1966 Southerly 26 93 You, long-dead entomologist Sidney, like this bush rat, have found the crumbling edge cave in.

bush road n. a road through the Bush.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > through bush

bush road1827

bush-track1832

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. vii. 123 A made bush-road is one where the brushes have been cleared, banks of rivers and gullies levelled, [etc.]..; while a natural bush-road signifies one to which nothing has been done except notching the trees, the carts simply following each other's track.

1857 W. Westgarth Victoria & Gold Mines xi. 250 The gloomy antithesis of good bush-rangers and bad bush-roads.

1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee i. 2 Along the side of the Ironbark ranges was a bush road, leading to the hamlet.

1966 Weekly News (N.Z.) 1 June 43/2 In the area that we visited, which is already served by the bush road, we saw isolated kauri trees more than five feet in diameter.

bush robin n. the popular name esp. in Africa of various small birds.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > miscellaneous groups or types

Strasbourg finch1783

oscines1853

New Zealand robin1855

lark bunting1858

boat-billed flycatcher1869

oscine1883

bush robin1901

antpitta1911

boatbill1930

parson bird1945

1901 A. C. Stark Birds S. Afr. II. 217 Tarsiger stellatus. White-starred Bush Robin.

1901 A. C. Stark Birds S. Afr. II. 219 Tarsiger silens. Silent Bush Robin.

1932 Discovery July 231/2 No bird calls but the bush-robin with chrome-yellow underparts and silver stars on his slate-blue forehead.

bush-scythe n. a bill-hook.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > bill hook

wood-billc725

billc1000

falsartc1380

wood-hookc1440

falchion1483

forest-bill1488

bush-scythe1552

brush-bill1588

cutting-bill1601

bill-hook1611

hook-bill1613

bush-bill1631

hack1846

snagger1847

slasher1858

bush-hook1860

slash-hook1891

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Byl called a forest bil, or bush-sithe.

1856 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 7 54 D. O. and W. S. Perry..[exhibited] three bush scythes.

1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 194 It is possible to subdue them..by cutting them off near the ground with a bush-scythe.

bush-sheep n. U.S. (see quot.).

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by habitat

mountain sheep1596

fold1669

heath-cropper1819

bush-sheep1870

1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 457 Sheep shipped in for sale because they ‘didn't flourish’ on prairie grass. These ‘bush sheep’, as they are called, have been in abundant supply.

bush shirt n. a loose-fitting light shirt worn by men in hot climates.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other

bloody shirta1586

ruffle shirt1749

ruffled shirt1754

dicky1781

overshirt1805

camise1812

mill tog1821

boiled shirt1853

Crimean shirt1853

Crimea shirt1857

shirtwaist1859

shirt1867

polo shirt1887

zephyr1887

Ghost Shirt1890

Henley1890

negligée shirt1895

turtle-neck1897

rugby shirt1902

bush shirt1909

tunic shirt1918

safari shirt1921

button-down1924

thousand-miler1929

aloha shirt1936

buba1937

zoot shirt1942

Hawaiian shirt1955

sweater-shirt1964

beach shirt1966

kimono shirt1968

dashiki1969

1909 M. S. Kisch Let. Nigeria (1910) xii. 169 This is the kind of costume I go about in; a bush shirt..and long native-made boots.

1953 D. Lessing Five iii. 144 Now he strode fast over the ground, his loose bush-shirt flying around him.

bush-shrike n. the English name of the Thamnophilinæ, a sub-family of the Shrikes; any of various birds belonging to the African subfamily Malaconotinæ.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > genus Malacnotus (bush-shrike)

brubru1829

bokmakierie1834

bush-shrike1893

kokkewiet1896

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 21 The large genus Thamnophilus, containing upwards of 50 species, is one of the most important of the so-called ‘Bush-Shrikes’.

1932 Discovery Jan. 25/2 A wonderful new black-breasted bush-shrike..an entirely new species..christened Chlorophoneus nigrescens.

1953 R. Campbell Mamba's Precipice iv. 40 A pretty bush-robin came out..followed by a lovely bush-shrike with a bright green back, a yellow stomach, and a brilliant crimson chest.

bush-sickness n. (see quots.).

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > lack of minerals in

bush-sickness1929

1929 Times 1 July 15/6 Lack of minerals in pastures causes innumerable diseases, such as..‘bush-sickness’..in New Zealand.

1929 Times 1 July 16/2 Able to..identify ‘Nakuruitis’ as similar to ‘bush-sickness’ in New Zealand.

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 67/3 As a result of research in both New Zealand and Australia, the cause of bush sickness was found in 1935 to be a deficiency of cobalt.

bush-sick adj.

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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [adjective] > pasture > poor or overgrazed

bare-eaten1577

sheep-sick1895

overgrazed1921

bush-sick1950

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 31/1 The amount of cobaltised fertiliser used..in 1949..would be sufficient to correct cobalt deficiency in 940,000 acres of bush-sick pasture.

bush-sparrow n. an American name for a kind of sparrow (see quot.).

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Spizella > other types of

tree sparrow1831

bush-sparrow1869

1869 J. Burroughs in Galaxy Mag. Aug. 173 A favourite sparrow of my own..is the wood, or bush-sparrow, usually called spizella pusilla.

bush-spider n. a large spider of South America.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > large

bush-spider1796

barking spider1934

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xx. 93 A bush-spider of such magnitude, that putting him into a case-bottle above eight inches high, he..reached the surface with some of his hideous claws.

bush-syrup n. (see quot.).

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > other syrups

hydrosacrec1400

succadoc1530

honey roset1558

tree-honey1626

treacle1694

capillaire1754

dibs1757

syrup of capillaire1785

arrope1851

glucose1852

bush-syrup1866

palm-honey1866

moskonfyt1872

grenadine1896

pyromel1899

corn syrup1903

butterscotch1910

rose hip syrup1942

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. (at cited word) Bush Syrup, a saccharine fluid obtained from the flowers of Protea mellifera, in the Cape Colony.

bush tea n. tea made from the leaves of certain shrubs, esp. those of species of Cyclopia, Borbonia, etc., dried and used medicinally in South Africa.

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the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun] > tea made in bush or outdoors

bush tea1768

quart-pot tea1854

switchel1897

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > decoction or infusion > [noun] > specific decoction or infusion

sabras?c1225

tisanea1398

tamarisk1597

wort1694

sage tea?1706

poppy tea1709

yapon tea1723

herb-tea1744

spring juices1751

balm-tea1752

camomile-tea1753

uva ursi1753

nettle tea1758

bush tea1768

quassia1778

majo bitters1866

Mexican tea1866

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > expectorant

expectorant1633

expectorator1657

expectorative1662

bush tea1768

1768 in G. F. Dow Holyoke Diaries (1911) 30 Began to take Bush Tea.

1838 J. E. Alexander Exped. Discov. Interior Afr. I. 141 He regaled Mr. Schmelen and myself on boiled salt beef and bush tea.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Bush Tea, the leaflets of a species of Cyclopia, probably C. latifolia,..supposed to possess expectorant and restorative properties.

1902 ‘X. C.’ Everyday Life in Cape Colony ix. 122 In most of these Colonial stores ‘bush’ tea can be bought.

1946 Cape Argus 27 Feb. 6/9 In the country districts bushtea has many names—honey tea, boer tea, rooibos and so on.

bush telegraph n. originally Australian bush-rangers' confederates who disseminated information as to the movements of the police; transferred, rapid spreading of information, or of a rumour, etc.; the ‘grapevine’.

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society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > route by which rumour is passed

grapevinea1867

bush telegraph1878

moccasin telegram1908

moccasin telegraph1909

1878 Australian 1 507 The police are baffled by..the number and activity of the bush telegraphs.

1893 K. Mackay Out Back v A hint dropped in this town set the bush telegraphs riding in all directions.

1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Nov. 21/1 The bush telegraph sends tidings to and fro.

1946 U. Krige Way Out x. 121 We had heard too many ‘latrinograms’ now to be unduly impressed by the particular form of bush-telegraph..practised by the Italian peasants.

1951 ‘N. Shute’ Round Bend 208 ‘How did the Imam get to know about it?’.. ‘The bush telegraph works very well, here in Bahrein.’

1954 L. P. Hartley White Wand i. 12 ‘How did he know that I was here?’ I asked—a silly question from someone who knew the workings of the Venetian bush-telegraph as well as I did.

bush-tick n. (see quot. 1886).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Acari or family Acaridae > member of (tick) > family Ixodidae > member of genus Ixodes

ricinus1658

bush-tick1856

wolf-tick1861

carrapato1886

scrub tick1891

1856 C. J. Andersson Lake Ngami ii. 20 Besides myriads of fleas, our encampment swarmed with a species of bush-tick.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 July 4/1 The carrapato, or bush-tick..is a degenerate spider.

bush-tick berry n. South African the fruit of Osteospermum moniliferum.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > bone-seed plant or fruit

boneseed1811

bush-tick berry1865

1865 W. H. Harvey & O. W. Sonder Flora Capensis III. 436 A large bush..the Colonial name is Bush-tick Berry.

bush-tit n. a bird of the genus Psaltriparus (Cent. Dict. 1889).

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Aegithalidae > genus Psaltriparus (bush-tit)

bush-titmouse1881

bush-tit1893

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 83 Chamæa... ‘Bush-Tit’ and ‘Ground-Wren’.

bush-titmouse n. U.S. (see quot.).

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Aegithalidae > genus Psaltriparus (bush-tit)

bush-titmouse1881

bush-tit1893

1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 213 That diminutive little bird, the least bush titmouse (Psaltriparus minimus).

bush-track n. = bush road n.

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1864 Reader 2 Apr. 420/1 The roads from the nascent metropolis still partook mainly of the random character of ‘bush tracks’.

† bush-tree n. Obsolete the Box ( Buxus sempervirens).

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > box-tree or shrub > [noun]

box treeOE

boxOE

busshe1430

dwarf box1578

ground-box1578

bush-tree1595

boxwood1652

tree-box1731

1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Buxus, the bush tree.

1599 J. Welsh in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 127 A litle way off was a great high bush-tree as though it had no leaues.

bush vetch n. Vicia sepium.

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1785 Lett. & Papers Agric., Planting (1786) III. viii. 75 At the time when the bush vetch blossoms, the female bruchus lays her egg within the blossom.

1891 A. Pratt Flowering Plants Great Brit. I. 177 A patch of the Bush Vetch, sown in a garden, has been cut five times in the course of the second year.

1966 G. E. Fussell Eng. Dairy Farmer ii. 109 The old grazing pastures of Durham were mainly composed of cocksfoot, ryegrass, dogstail,..red and white clover, yarrow and bush vetch.

bush-warbler n. any of several genera of warblers belonging to the family Sylviidæ, found in Asia, Australasia, and Africa.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Acanthizinae > genus Gerygone

warbler1790

rainbird1817

riroriro1835

fly-eater1895

bush-warbler1898

bush canary1904

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Gerygone... In New Zealand they are called Bush-warblers.

bush-water n. rain water that collects in the low-lying parts of tropical forests.

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the world > the earth > water > body of water > still or standing water > [noun] > in tropical forests

bush-water1808

1808 Ann. Reg. 1806 (Otridge ed.) Characters 856/1 Some were cutting wood for firing—some collecting the bush-water with a calabash.

1871 E. Jenkins Coolie ix. 120 That strange ebonised ‘bush-water’, which..anon curls and eddies round us like the smiles on a Negro's face.

1891 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Feb. 383 The plantations..were surrounded by four dams or embankments;..one behind to exclude the ‘bush water’, the accumulated rain of the interior.

bush willow n. in South Africa, a plant of either of the species Combretum erythrophyllum or C. salicifolium.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > African trees or shrubs > [noun] > other African trees or shrubs

keurboom1731

silver-tree1731

witteboom1799

Hottentot's bean1801

melkhouta1823

monkey apple1824

witgatboom1824

Hottentot's bean tree1833

spek-boom1834

mopane1854

Welwitschia1862

ambatch1863

miombo1864

pith tree1864

porkwood1875

tree purslane1882

buffalo-horn1887

monkey guava1887

bush willow1917

melkboom1917

msasa1923

rooibos1932

miraa1945

ovangkol1972

pigeon wood1972

tambotie1973

1917 R. Marloth Flora S. Afr.: Dict. Common Names 89 The so-called ‘Bushveld [Willow]’ or ‘Bush [Willow]’ is Combretum salicifolium.

bushwoman n. a woman living in the Australian or African bush.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of > woman or girl

bush-girl1822

bushwoman1863

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > countries or regions > woman

bushwoman1863

1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 484 The human brain here given..is that of an African bushwoman.

1874 W. M. Baines Narr. E. Crewe viii. 192 The white bushwoman—creatures of a mature age, hideous to look upon.

1905 Daily Chron. 16 Dec. 4/7 Bushmen and bushwomen within a radius of forty or fifty miles ride to these functions.

bush-wood n. underwood, brushwood.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood

ronea1300

underwooda1325

rammel1338

brushetc1380

scroga1400

bushailec1400

frithing1429

brushal1430

brushc1440

ronec1440

thevec1440

garsil1483

shroga1500

cablish1594

south-bois1598

undergrowth1600

frith1605

hand timber1664

subbois1664

urith1671

brushwood1732

bush-wood1771

underbrush1775

slop1784

woodiness1796

scrub1805

shag1836

chaparral1845

underbush1849

underscrub1870

sand-brush1871

buck-brush1874

bush1879

horizontal scrub1888

tangle-wood1894

shin-tangle1905

1771 W. Wales in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 119 It is entirely covered with low bush-wood.

2010 Independent 17 July (Mag.) 25/1 The rough rectangle of land is perhaps 20 metres by 20, portioned off behind bush-wood fences.

bush-worm n. (see quot.).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > unspecified

breezea1300

drumblec1350

gagrill14..

bug1594

bud-cutter1693

butter-cutter1704

cane-fly1750

whistle-insect1760

bush-worm1796

gogga1909

nunu1913

minibeast1973

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxiii. 183 I had now extracted out of my right arm two dreadful insects..These are called in Surinam the bush-worms, and are the shape and size of the aurelia of the common butterfly, with a pointed tail and black head.

bush-wren n. the New Zealand name for a bird of the species Xenicus longipes.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Acanthisittidae (rock wren)

New Zealand wren1861

rifleman1871

bush-wren1887

rock wren1966

1887 W. L. Buller Birds N.Z. (ed. 2) I. 115 Bush-wren [Xenicus longipes]..is generally met with singly or in pairs.

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bush league n. Baseball a minor league, esp. one of mediocre quality; frequently transferred and attributive.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of secondary importance

by1632

secondary1796

subfunctional1892

bush league1906

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [adjective] > league

big league1881

bush league1906

major league1906

little league1939

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of secondary importance

handmaidena1425

handmaid1533

anise1741

first (second) chop1823

secondary1841

footnote1858

bush league1928

1906 [see bush leaguer n. at Additions].

1908 Baseball Mag. July 79/2 Being from Chicago, that bush league town wasn't good enough to hold Hermaine's sandals.

1914 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 8 Bush league trick, a trick indulged in which is not in harmony with its surroundings.

1928 D. Parker in New Yorker 12 May 20/2 Well, well, well, to think of me having real Scotch; I'm out of the bush leagues at last.

1949 A. Hynd We are Public Enemies iv. 108 He was..a bushleague Chicago gambler.

1955 Sci. Amer. Sept. 188/2 This is a first-class piece of ratiocination and scientific detection which makes the efforts of highly touted police and crime laboratories seem bush-league stuff.

1973 Hockey Digest Apr. 8/2 What does Hockey Digest think of the WHA and how long will it last? I think it is a bush league.

1986 N.Y. Post 9 July 57/3 This is an example of poor sportsmanship... It is international bush league.

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bush leaguer n. one who plays in a minor league; also transferred, small timer.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance

nekardc1450

man of clouts, king of clouts1467

dandiprat1556

Tom Thumb1579

minim1590

pygmy?1592

titmouse1596

gnatling1614

rye straw1615

nazzard1619

whisk1629

whifling1640

snifty1660

whippersnapper1674

nick-ninny1699

little me1711

squita1825

lightweight1831

lay figure1835

whiffet1839

pinkeen1850

huckleberry1868

bush leaguer1906

knibloch1915

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball player > [noun] > player in a minor league

minor leaguer1897

bush leaguer1906

1906 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 10 Feb. 4/4 Consider the bush leaguer on the bench! He toils not neither does he spin; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

1943 S. Lewis G. Planish xxv. 301 He peeped into every new organization to promote religion—and there were perhaps six new ones a week in New York City—because these bush-leaguers might have some new ideas.

1975 S. Bellow Humboldt's Gift (1976) 180 I don't care who she is and what she knows, compared to Polly she's a bush leaguer.

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bushmeat n. (as a mass noun) wild animals hunted for food, esp. in Africa; the meat from these animals.

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1842 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 13 15 This might have been accounted for by the practice of the natives, who set fire to the grass in the dry season for the purpose of catching wild animals, which they call ‘bush-meat’.

1966 U. Beier tr. O. Ijimere Imprisonment of Obatala 91 You will not leave my house without eating. And we have bushmeat today!

2004 Farang May 14/1 The two men are tense, despite the fact that hunting for bush-meat—wild mammals and birds—has been a lifelong occupation and necessity.

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bush cricket n. a cricket that frequents bushes; (in later use) spec. any of numerous orthopterans constituting the family Tettigoniidae, which resemble grasshoppers but have long antennae, stridulate using their wings, and are often nocturnal and predatory; also called long-horned grasshopper, (North American) katydid.

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1845 R. Howitt Impressions Austral. Felix 74 Multitudinous was the clatter and whirl of bush-crickets.

1909 H. Maxwell-Lefroy Indian Insect Life 103 The small bush crickets are to some extent predaceous on small insects.

1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses viii. 161 Crickets are variously known as mole-crickets (burrowers in the ground), bush-crickets, tree-crickets.., and field crickets.

1974 W. Condry Woodlands iv. 57 The oak bush-cricket (Meconema thalassinum) [is] the only British grasshopper or cricket which lives in trees.

2006 Guardian 28 Mar. ii. 11/2 The wart-biter bush-cricket is just managing to cling on in five widely separated populations..in southern Britain.

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bush elephant n. the savannah elephant, Loxodonta africana africana.

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1899 Agric. Jrnl. (Dept. Agric. Cape Good Hope) 19 Jan. 93 The Addo Bush elephant..presents such marked differences from the Central African elephant that it will have to be regarded as a distinct species.]

1922 Jrnl. Royal Afr. Soc. 21 93 It would seem probable that the big bush elephant most nearly represents the ancestral stock, whether indigenous or introduced.

1958 R. Garnett tr. B. Heuvelmans On Track of Unknown Animals xvi. 361 A male bush elephant often stands more than 11 feet high.

2011 Vanity Fair Aug. 134/2 Forest elephants..generally have smaller ears and shorter, harder, straighter, more orange tusks than the savanna or bush elephants.

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bush tucker n. colloquial (originally Australian) food, typically uncooked, from plants and animals native to the Australian outback; cf. tucker n.¹ 5b.

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1885 Eastern Districts Chron. (York, W. Austral.) 13 June 3/1 Wattle Birds and Squeakers have now become extinct, owing to the prevailing hard times, and the necessity..for man to subsist entirely upon bush ‘tucker’.

1930 Dubbo Liberal & Macquarie Advocate (New S. Wales) 21 Mar. 8/2 His party rallied him on being a poor traveller unable to enjoy bush tucker.

1996 J. M. Jacobs Edge of Empire vi. 134 Visitors might..sit down to an Aboriginal-inspired ‘bush tucker’ meal..or browse amongst the ‘high quality’ artefacts available for purchase.

2014 Wiltshire Times (Nexis) 27 July (News section) One of the most popular activities was the bush tucker trials, which tasked challengers with eating witchetty grubs and crickets.

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bush lot n. chiefly Canadian a plot of wooded or uncleared land, esp. on a farm.

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1832 13th Ann. Rep. N.-Y. Inst. for Instr. Deaf & Dumb 1831 3 The clearing, draining, and fencing, of a neighboring field, termed the Bush-lot.

1858 Canad. Merchant's Mag. 554 To induce emigrants to settle amongst us something more requires to be done, than to give them a bush lot in some back settlement.

2019 Almaguin (Ont.) News (Nexis) 14 Nov. (Final ed.) 1 We did see a very nice 10-point buck strolling across a big, open field, heading in the direction of a bush lot.

bush party n. chiefly Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian an outdoor party in a wooded area or other remote location, typically held by young people and often involving heavy drinking.

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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > other parties

play-party1796

tail1837

surprise-party1840

street party1845

costume party1850

pound party1869

all-nighter1870

neighbourhood party1870

simcha1874

ceilidh1875

studio party1875

pounding1883

house party1885

private function1888

shower1893

kitchen shower1896

kitchen evening1902

bottle party1903

pyjama party1910

block party1919

house party1923

after-party1943

slumber party1949

office party1950

freeload1952

hukilau1954

BYOB1959

pot party1959

bush party1962

BYO1965

wrap party1978

bop1982

warehouse party1988

rave1989

1962 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 328 2113/2 Many stories are told over there about the bush parties to which the men go... Young people [should] keep away from beer parties of that nature.

2018 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 7 Mar. a4 Most [kids] went to at least one bush party that ended with police cars swooping in and teenagers scattering into the night.

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单词	bush
释义	bushn.¹ Brit. /bʊʃ/, U.S. /bʊʃ/ Forms: Middle English–1600s busk, Middle English–1600s buske; Middle English bos(s)ch(e, bossh(e, buss(e, (also bousch(e, boysch, buysch(e), Middle English busch(e, bussch(e, Middle English–1500s bussh(e, Middle English boshe, 1500s bushe, buszhe, Middle English– bush; Scottish1500s– bus, buss. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse busk-r. Etymology: Middle English busk , < Old Norse busk-r (Danish busk , Swedish buske ), cognate with Old High German bush (Middle High German busch , bosch , German busch ), Middle Dutch busc , bosc (Dutch bosch , bos ), all < Rom. bosco or late Latin boscum , boscus wood, of which the ulterior source is unknown. Compare boscage n., bosk n. The form busk is still found in northern dialect, but in Sc. is reduced to bus, buss; the buss of the Ayenbite was only Dan Michel's way of spelling bush with ss for sh. 1. a. A shrub, particularly one with close branches arising from or near the ground; a small clump of shrubs apparently forming one plant. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [noun] > shrub or bush shrub972 bosk1297 bushc1315 treec1350 scrub1398 boce1482 shrag1552 virgult?1553 tod1563 risp1567 bush-tuft1586 frutex1664 scrub-tree1749 α. Form busk. Obsolete exc. dialect a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2779 Vt of ðat busk..God sente an steuene. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 136 Briddes..þat in buskes [1393 C. xiv. 156 bosshes, bussches, busches] made nestes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 56 Buske or busshe, rubus, dumus. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 29 Birdis hoppand fra busk to tuist. 1601 R. Yarington Two Lamentable Trag. sig. E4^v Thickets full of buskes. 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 46 Lads love's a busk of broom. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 203 Busks, bushes. 1863 Ld. Lytton Ring of Amasis II. 211 The old straight carriage-drives..now wind in and out among the busks and thickets. β. Form bush.c1315 Shoreham 131 Thou art the bosche of Synay.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 28 Ne in gerse, ne in busse, ne in trauwe.c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke vi. 44 A boysch [a1425 L.V. buysche] of breris.a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxl. 1036 A busshe hatte rubus.c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 87 As plummes boshes are.1543 Act 35 Hen. VIII xvii. §4 Over-grown with Bushes or Under-wood.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 176 The undergrowth Of shrubs and tangling bushes . View more context for this quotation1864 Ld. Tennyson Grandmother 40 In the bush beside me chirrupt the nightingale.γ. Form bus (Scottish).1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 62 And flemit Flora frome euery bank and bus.1778 A. Ross Helenore (ed. 2) 28 Upon the busses, birdies sweetly sung.1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems II. 163 I like our hills an' heathery braes, Ilk burdie, buss, an' burnie.1888 N.E.D. at Bush Sc. Proverbs Better a wee buss than nae beild. Ye maun bow to the buss ye get bield frae. b. to beat the bush: (literal) in bat-fowling, to rouse the birds that they may fly into the net held by some one else; (figurative) to expend labour of which the fruit is not gained by oneself. (Cf. beat v.¹ 26) to beat (formerly also go, wend, seek) about the bush: to go indirectly and tentatively towards an object, to avoid coming to the point. (Cf. beat v.¹ 26c.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > hunt birds [verb (intransitive)] > at night > rouse birds to beat the bushc1440 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > use periphrasis to beat (formerly also go, wend, seek) about the bushc1440 wind1528 periphrase1652 to go about1815 circumlocute1859 circumlocutionize1886 to go (all) round the houses1958 c1440 Generydes 4524 Some bete the bussh and some the byrdes take. 1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. A.iij A longe betyng aboute the busshe & losse of tyme to a yonge begynner. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 1 b If he utter his mind in plain wordes: and tell it orderly, without goynge about the bushe. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 12 That we shuld not seke about the bush for an vncertaine Godhead. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 528 We have beaten the bush, and not come plainly to the point. 1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy iii. ii I went round the bush, and round the bush, before I came to the matter. 1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 4 621 He never goes about the bush for a phrase. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. ix. 212 He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. iii. 29 Benighted fowls, when you beat their bushes, rush towards any light. c. Proverbs. ΚΠ 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 123 Thus hath every gap his bush, each suspition his prevention. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiii. iii. 474 Therefore with one bush (as they say) ye are to stop two gaps, and to do both at once. 1638 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 97 This common usage of the phrase, as it well preserveth the sence, so doth it also (that I may stop two gaps with one bush) justifie the truth of this charge in my text. c1689 Popish Pol. Unmaskt 84 in 3rd Coll. Poems (1689) 23/2 With them one Bird in Hand's worth two i' th' Bush. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 247 The..chance of receiving gold which is still like the bird in the bush. 2. In northern dialects extended to sub-shrubs as heather, or herbaceous plants growing in a clump, as nettles, ferns, rushes. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [noun] > shrub or bush > subshrub bush1529 suffrutex1567 undershrub1598 subshrub1825 1529 D. Lindsay Compl. 408 Ihone Vpeland bene full blyith, I trow, Because the rysche bus kepis his kow. 1570 Trag. in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 232 Than mycht the Rasche bus keip ky on the bordour. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 395/2 in Chron. I Caused the rashe bush to keepe the Cowe. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xii. 259 The oppressors that hae driven me to tak the heather bush for a beild. †3. collectively. A clump of shrubs, a thicket; bushy ground. (Cf. bosk n. 2) Obsolete except as reintroduced in sense 9. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush shaw755 thicketa1000 thyvela1000 greavec1050 wood-shawc1275 boscagec1400 greenwood shawc1405 thickc1430 brakec1440 shaw of wood1462 queach1486 bush1523 tuft1555 bushment1587 bocage1644 cripple1675 virgult1736 bluffc1752 thick-set1766 sylvagea1774 thicket-maze1813 bosk1815 woodlet1821 rush1822 puckerbrush1867 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng iii. f. 2^v Highe grounde and drie, is moost conuenyent for shepe, wode grounde and busshe for beestes. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 5 She had hydden her selfe in a groue..But Theseus fynding her, called her..Vpon which..she came out of the bushe. a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) v. 261 The rest betook them to a little bush of wood, where being environed on all sides, they yielded. †4. a. A clump of shrubs used as a place of concealment; = ambush n. So to take a bush, to thrust or run one's head in a bush. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] hidelsc975 hidela1300 bushc1330 hulkc1330 derna1340 tapissinga1340 coverta1375 hiding1382 loting-placea1398 cover14.. hiding placec1440 mewa1450 closetc1450 hole1483 cure1502 secret1530 shrouding place1571 ivy-bush1576 coney burrowa1586 hidlings1597 foxhole1606 shrouding corner1610 recess1611 subterfuge1616 latibule1623 latebra1626 blind1646 privacy1648 hide1649 retreat1697 rathole1770 hidey-hole1817 tod hole1846 hulster1880 hideout1885 cwtch1890 castle1898 lurk1906 stash1927 hideaway1930 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > hostile lying in wait > place of ambush > a thicket bushc1330 bushailea1400 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] > go into hiding > in vegetation to take a bush1631 wood1645 to thrust or run one's head in a bush1655 c1330 Arth. & Merl. 8432 In on busse thou the hide. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2887 Þan schullaþ our men of hem be-war & breken out of þe bossche. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 659 This Palamoun Was in a bussh þ^t no man myghte hym se. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 71 [He] stud in-till a busk lurkand. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iv. sig. C.j^v As the beast passed by, he start out of a buske. 1631 J. Burges Answer Reioyned 52 Hee againe takes a bush, and hides himselfe vnder the ambiguous terme of Religious Ceremonies. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 54 In stead of confessing their sins, they run their head in a bush, and by their good will would not come where God is. b. beggar's-bush: see beggar n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 76 And wil you (being a man of your breeding) be married vnder a bush like a begger? View more context for this quotation 5. a. A branch or bunch of ivy (perhaps as the plant sacred to Bacchus) hung up as a vintner's sign; hence, the sign-board of a tavern. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > tavern sign lion?a1366 ale stake1396 ivy14.. sunc1400 tokenc1440 eagle1449 chequerc1460 wisp?1507 Saracen's head1510 ale-pole1523 bush1532 wine garland1533 ivy-garland1553 tavern-bush1553 lattice1575 ivy-bush1576 alebush1599 red lattice1604 elephanta1616 sagittarya1616 grate1622 wine-bush1638 popinjay1687 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. (1557) 642/1 Set vp for a bare signe, as a tauerners bush or tapsters ale stake. 1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 185 Womens beauty..is like vnto an Iuy bush, that cals men to the tauern, but hangs itselfe withoute to winde and wether. 1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good sig. C3^v As a drawer in a new Tauern, first day the bush is hung vp. c1613 S. Rowlands More Knaues Yet? 36 At next bush and signe Calling for clarret. 1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 97 Wicker bottles dangling over even the chief entrance..serving for a vintner's bush. 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. xxxi. 158 You may bind two of them a cross, like a Tavern-Bush. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bush, also denotes a coronated frame of wood hung out as a sign at taverns..antiently, signs where wine was sold were bushes. 1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) ix. 71 How should people know where wine is sold, unless a bush is hung out? b. Hence, the tavern itself. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house houseOE tavern1297 tavern-housea1400 sunc1400 tap-house1500 tippling-housea1549 innsc1550 bousing-inn1575 ivy-bush1576 osteria1580 ordinary1590 caback1591 taberna1593 bousing-house1594 pothouse1598 red lattice1604 cupping-house1615 public house1617 busha1625 Wirtshaus1650 bibbery1653 cabaret1656 gaming ordinary1667 public1685 shop1695 bibbing-housea1704 dram-shop1725 gill house1728 rum shop1738 buvette1753 dram-house1753 grog-shop1790 wine-vault1791 pub1800 pulperia1818 pulqueria1822 potation-shop1823 rum hole1825 Wirtschaft1834 drunkery1836 pot shop1837 drinkery1840 rum mill1844 khazi1846 beer-shop1848 boozer1895 rub-a-dub1898 Weinstube1899 rubbity-dub1905 peg house1922 rub-a-dub-dub1932 rubbity1941 Stube1946 superpub1964 a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher (O.) Twenty to one you find him at the bush. 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 2nd Pt. v. sig. L^v Then will I go home to the bush where I drew wine. c. Proverb. good wine needs no bush. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Bon Good wine draws customers without any help of an iuy-bush. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) Epil. 4 If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue. View more context for this quotation 1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 168 As good Wine needs no Bush, no more do good Medicines a printed Bill. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 30 Good wine needs neither bush, herald, nor crier. 1861 W. Thornbury in Good Words 432 Faded boughs—the bush that good wine does not need—rustle over the door. d. figurative as to hang out bushes. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertise [verb (intransitive)] to hang out bushesa1640 advertise1772 a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bb2v/1 Young women, in the old world were not wont, Sir, To hang out gaudy busshes for their beauties. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §2 In every one of them, some outward figures, which hang as signes or bushes of their inward formes. View more context for this quotation e. figurative. Boasting, bluster, ‘tall talk’. U.S. dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] facing1481 blusteringa1494 flirdom?a1500 bravity1546 bravery1548 roistingc1560 bravado1583 roister-doisterdom1592 swash1593 swaggeringa1596 huffing1600 hufty1609 huff1611 brustling1622 hufty-tufty1633 bouncing1634 hectorism1672 huffiness1678 bluster1692 bounce1714 bravadoism1833 fanfaronading1837 bush1840 huffishness1841 swashbuckling1888 bucko1909 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xii. 166 You Maine folks have been talkin' a leetle too fast lately, a leetle too much bush. †6. transferred. a. Anything resembling a bush; a bushy mass of foliage, feathers, etc.; a bunch. Obsolete or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > tuft > like a brush or bush bush1530 brush1581 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 202/1 Busshe of oystrisshe fethers, plumart. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 296 The cypres tree..growyng sharpe with a bushe greate beneth and smal aboue of a trymme facion. 1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados vii. xi. 77 Amyd ane bus, of speris in rade thay. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. iii. 432/2 In the ninth of his Raigne a blazing Starre appeared with two bushes. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xi. 40 They put on all their bravery..and bushes of feathers. b. A signalling instrument used in Cornish pilchard fishing. local. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > other fishing devices raw1533 taining1533 kepper1558 rack1735 fluke-rake1766 runner1766 jig1846 bush1880 fish-gorge1883 gorge1883 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 8/1 Bush, two hoops fixed on a short pole, passing through each other at right angles. 1892 Graphic 13 Aug. 194/1 The huers on land making signals to the boatmen with two instruments called ‘bushes’, which are hoops crossing each other, and covered with a white bag, and fastened to the end of short rods. c. The cat-o'-nine-tails. slang. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge > cat-o'-nine-tails cat-o'-nine-tails1695 cat1788 bone-polisher1803 thieves' cat1867 martinet1881 bush1895 1895 Daily News 13 Sept. 7/6 They might give him twenty years, and he should not care, so long as they did not order him the bush. 7. a. esp. A bushy head of hair. (Very common in 16th cent.: of hair is now expressed.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > bushy or thick bush1509 hair-bush1580 bush-heada1603 shag1607 fella1616 mop1616 bush-hair1692 hassock1754 mopheada1816 shock-head1817 shock1819 flock-hair1878 tousle1880 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxlv To hyre the busshe of one that late is dede Therwith to disgyse his folys dotynge hede. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 762 Trymme my busshe, barber. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. 2 Kings xiv. 26 Once a yeare he was powled, because his bush did burden him. 1640 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 147 A bush of hair will do it, where it groweth. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 57 He who wears a long bush, All powder'd down from his Pericrane. a1845 R. H. Barham Jerry Jarvis's Wig in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 328 A continued tuft of coarse, wiry hair..swelled out in a greyish-looking bush above the occiput. 1880 Chambers's Jrnl. 774 Their heads..covered with great bushes of wool. b. occasionally of a bushy beard, or eyebrows. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > beard > types of bush-beard1606 bush1647 barbula1688 beardlet1847 doormat1909 the world > life > the body > hair > eyebrow > [noun] overbrowOE breec1275 bryn1330 bent browc1380 superciliuma1398 brow1398 eyebrowa1450 winbrow?1473 beetle1532 eye-bree1543 bow1729 arch-brow1741 bush1859 c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 261 His browes war like litel buskes.] 1647 S. Sheppard 2nd Pt. Committee man Curried i. ii. 2 His chin has no bush, save a little downe. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 136 He dragg'd his eyebrow bushes down, and made A snowy penthouse for his hollow eyes. c. (A bushy growth of) pubic hair. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > pubic hair > [noun] pubes1569 garden1732 fud1771 pubic hair1836 moss1847 rug1893 maidenhair1908 pussy hairc1910 bush1922 man-hair1928 thatch1933 chuff1967 pube1967 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. v. [Lotus Eaters] 83 He..saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands. 1959 M. Richler Apprenticeship Duddy Kravitz i. ix. 50 Milty ran off crying... ‘What is it, pussy-lamb?’ ‘I'm never going to grow a bush, Mummy.’ 1968 J. Updike Couples i. 9 Her throat, wrists, and triangular bush appeared the pivots for some undeniable effort of flight. 1973 A. Powell Temporary Kings ii. 72 He insisted on taking a cutting from my bush—said he always did that after having anyone for the first time. †8. A bushy tail, esp. of a fox; = brush n.² 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Vulpes > vulpes vulpes (fox) > miscellaneous parts of > tail and parts of bush1575 brush1675 chape1677 holy-water sprinkle1706 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 241 The tayle of a Foxe is called his Bush. 1584 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 113 It seemeth to be a dead Lion; for it hath a long tail with a bush at the end. 1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 176 Termes of the Tayle. That of a Fox is termed his Bush. 9. a. (Recent, and probably a direct adoption of the Dutch bosch, in colonies originally Dutch.) Woodland, country more or less covered with natural wood: applied to the uncleared or untilled districts in the former British Colonies which are still in a state of nature, or largely so, even though not wooded; and by extension to the country as opposed to the towns. For U.S. examples see D.A., D.A.E. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] westerneOE weste landOE wastinea1175 westec1175 wastec1200 wildernc1200 wildernessc1200 wildernessc1230 warlottc1290 forestc1320 wastyc1325 deserta1398 wastern?a1400 wildnessa1513 the wilds of1600 vastness1605 vastacy1607 roughet1616 wild1637 wildland1686 bush1780 wastage1823 mesquite1834 wasteland1887 mulga1896 virgin bush1905 boondock1944 boonies1954 virgin land1955 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land wold786 frith?826 woodland869 woodc897 rough1332 foresta1375 firth?a1400 weald1544 bocage1644 parkland1649 bush1780 sylvanry1821 forestry1823 belting1844 rukh1856 treescape1885 bush1912 1780¹ [see bush-cat n. at Compounds 2]. 1826 J. Atkinson Acct. Agric. & Grazing New S. Wales iv. 64 When any person finds himself overstocked..they go into the interior, or bush, as it is termed, beyond the occupied parts of the country. 1828 W. Scott Tapestr. Chamb. When I was in the Bush, as the Virginians call it. 1836 W. B. Marshall Personal Narr. Two Visits N.Z. 152 They [sc. the interpreters] took to the bush for shelter by day. 1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales I. 253 His house was well enough for the bush, as the country is generally termed in the colony. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. iv. 305 The Black man loves the Bush. 1851 N. J. Merriman Jrnl. 21 Sept. in Kafir, Hottentot & Frontier Farmer (1854) 121 His mother and sister had escaped into the bush for refuge. 1857 R. B. Paul Lett. from Canterbury iv. 65 A pleasant walk of three hours through the bush. 1873 A. Trollope Austral. & N.Z. I. 299 Nearly every place beyond the influences of the big towns is called ‘bush’ even though there should be not a tree to be seen. 1874 J. C. Geikie Life in Woods (ed. 2) ii. 21 Every thing being much cheaper in Toronto than away in the bush. 1886 N.Z. Herald 1 June 2/4 There is a bush upon it of 63 acres. 1888 Castle Line Handbk. & Emigrant's Guide S. Afr. 69 The soil..having been covered to a large extent by a thick forest of trees (usually termed ‘bush’). 1953 A. Paton Too Late Phalarope vii. 52 The kloof was wooded, not with forest, but with what we in South Africa call the bush. 1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 27 He's been in the bush so long he's started to look like a roo. b. to take to the bush. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > to the country or bush to take to the bush1837 to go bush1908 1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales II. 15 Four of them immediately take to the bush, i.e. become bush-rangers, or run~away convicts, subsisting on plunder. †c. A clump of trees. New Zealand. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > clump or cluster hata1425 tuftc1450 plumpa1470 clumpa1586 turb1618 hummock1636 toll1644 bush1856 1856 T. Tancred in Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 3 7 Over these tracts are scattered some small ‘bushes’, or woods. 1857 R. B. Paul Lett. from Canterbury vi. 94 You should try to have a bush on or near your section. 1867 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) x. 62 Most stations have a bush near the homestead. d. plural = sense 9a. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood ronea1300 underwooda1325 rammel1338 brushetc1380 scroga1400 bushailec1400 frithing1429 brushal1430 brushc1440 ronec1440 thevec1440 garsil1483 shroga1500 cablish1594 south-bois1598 undergrowth1600 frith1605 hand timber1664 subbois1664 urith1671 brushwood1732 bush-wood1771 underbrush1775 slop1784 woodiness1796 scrub1805 shag1836 chaparral1845 underbush1849 underscrub1870 sand-brush1871 buck-brush1874 bush1879 horizontal scrub1888 tangle-wood1894 shin-tangle1905 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land wold786 frith?826 woodland869 woodc897 rough1332 foresta1375 firth?a1400 weald1544 bocage1644 parkland1649 bush1780 sylvanry1821 forestry1823 belting1844 rukh1856 treescape1885 bush1912 1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xxii. 130 That refuge of free thought at the South, the woods (or ‘the bushes’, as the scraggly growth is more generally termed). 1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch x. 210 The youngsters, who have come from the bushes and realize that this is their..chance to make good. e. to go bush, to go into the country; to leave the city; to disappear from one's usual surroundings. Also transferred, to run wild, to go berserk. Originally and chiefly Australian. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > to the country or bush to take to the bush1837 to go bush1908 society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > from the city or one's usual place to go bush1908 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [verb (intransitive)] > suffer from frenzy or raging awedeeOE to tear (out) the hairc1330 to run amok1672 amoka1811 to go berserk1917 to do one's (occasionally the) nut1919 to go bush1933 1908 J. Gunn We of Never-never 8 She went bush with me when I'd nothing but a skeeto net and a quart-pot to share with her. 1927 M. Terry Through Land of Promise 41 The English settlers..tried to tame them for domestic purposes. But the greater number had already ‘gone bush’. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Feb. 20 It is rare for this fellow [sc. a dog] to go bush, but it has been recorded. 1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. x. 78 Milbuka had fled, ‘gone bush’ that morning, and could not be found. 1946 F. D. Davison Dusty xiv. 156 From the fact that separate killings [of sheep] were reported it was natural to conclude that they were the work of a sheep dog gone bush. 1953 V. Bartlett Struggle for Afr. i. 24 An African may do the same job day after day for months or years, and then suddenly ‘go bush’, omit some vital part of his routine, even say or do things which he himself cannot remember or explain when the mood is over. 1958 R. Stow To Islands 118 Brother Heriot has disappeared. He's gone bush somewhere and he might never come back. 1964 Economist 30 May 1000/1 To take refuge from [Australian] urban problems by ‘going bush’. Compounds C1. attributive and general combinations: a. (In sense 1.) (a) bush-faggot n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > bundle > of bush bush-faggot1843 1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 292 Two rows of bush-faggots are laid for perhaps 50 yards in advance on the mud at low water. bush-fruit n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > [noun] > fruit by type of growth orchard fruit1652 tree-fruit1704 tropical fruit1746 bush-fruit1884 cane-fruit1889 1884 Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 11/1 Bush fruit, including gooseberries..raspberries, nuts, &c. bush-ground n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xix. f. 34^v Howe moche wode grounde or busshe grounde, heythe, lyng, or suche other. bush-planting n. ΚΠ 1822 W. Pontey Rural Improver xv. 165 The two breaks between the planting, on the western outline, are filled up by two patches of bush planting. 1907 Gardeners' Chron. 23 Feb. 116/1 The planting of some thousands of Black Currant-cuttings and some Apple stocks followed the tree and bush planting. bush-tuft n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [noun] > shrub or bush shrub972 bosk1297 bushc1315 treec1350 scrub1398 boce1482 shrag1552 virgult?1553 tod1563 risp1567 bush-tuft1586 frutex1664 scrub-tree1749 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. H.iiii Fro the sun beames safe lie lyzardes vnder a bushtufte. (b) bush-clad adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of bushya1382 ramagea1500 boskya1616 brakya1637 brushy1658 brushed1666 scrubbya1687 pine barrenc1721 bush-grown1837 stumpy1838 bush-skirted1858 bushed1868 bush-covered1873 bush-fringed1891 bush-clad1909 primary forest1909 1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 June 5/3 The bush-clad plains of the North-Eastern Transvaal. bush-covered adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of bushya1382 ramagea1500 boskya1616 brakya1637 brushy1658 brushed1666 scrubbya1687 pine barrenc1721 bush-grown1837 stumpy1838 bush-skirted1858 bushed1868 bush-covered1873 bush-fringed1891 bush-clad1909 primary forest1909 1873 J. H. H. St. John Pakeha Rambles through Maori Lands v. 67 The dark bush-covered hills of the Hunua. 1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 81 The rocky bush-covered foot of Schwartz Kop. bush-fringed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of bushya1382 ramagea1500 boskya1616 brakya1637 brushy1658 brushed1666 scrubbya1687 pine barrenc1721 bush-grown1837 stumpy1838 bush-skirted1858 bushed1868 bush-covered1873 bush-fringed1891 bush-clad1909 primary forest1909 1891 ‘J. Evelyn’ Baffled Vengeance 47 The river between its bush-fringed banks. bush-grown adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of bushya1382 ramagea1500 boskya1616 brakya1637 brushy1658 brushed1666 scrubbya1687 pine barrenc1721 bush-grown1837 stumpy1838 bush-skirted1858 bushed1868 bush-covered1873 bush-fringed1891 bush-clad1909 primary forest1909 1837 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 15 July in Amer. Notebks. (1972) ii. 48 A deep dell, wooded and bush-grown. 1884 M. Pattison Mem. (1885) 32 The little bush-grown beck which bounded our parish. bush-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [adjective] > of or resembling a shrub or bush shrubbed1539 bushy1567 bushed1573 shrubby1581 frutical1597 woody1609 shrubbish1656 arbustal1657 fruticeousa1682 frutescent1710 fruticose1805 fruticulose1830 bush-like1878 1878 W. Ogle tr. A. J. Kerner Flowers iv. 37 Great bush-like plants of Senecio. bush-skirted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of bushya1382 ramagea1500 boskya1616 brakya1637 brushy1658 brushed1666 scrubbya1687 pine barrenc1721 bush-grown1837 stumpy1838 bush-skirted1858 bushed1868 bush-covered1873 bush-fringed1891 bush-clad1909 primary forest1909 1858 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (new ed.) 313 This woody, bush-skirted walk. b. (In senses 7, 8.) (a) bush-beard n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > beard > types of bush-beard1606 bush1647 barbula1688 beardlet1847 doormat1909 1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe i. sig. A3^v He weares a bush beard. 1662 Greenhalgh in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. 309. IV. 8 A learned Jew with a mighty bush~beard. bush-hair n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > bushy or thick bush1509 hair-bush1580 bush-heada1603 shag1607 fella1616 mop1616 bush-hair1692 hassock1754 mopheada1816 shock-head1817 shock1819 flock-hair1878 tousle1880 1692 London Gaz. No. 2809/4 Another..Man..with small grey Eyes, brown bush Hair. bush-head n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > bushy or thick bush1509 hair-bush1580 bush-heada1603 shag1607 fella1616 mop1616 bush-hair1692 hassock1754 mopheada1816 shock-head1817 shock1819 flock-hair1878 tousle1880 a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 196 Your puppet being lifted aboue the Priests bush head. bush-tail n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] > relating to the tail > having a tail > having a bushy tail > bushy bush-tail1606 besom-tail1678 1606 Wily Beguilde 48 I might haue tournde my faire bush tayle to you instead of your father. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4453/3 A..Danish Bitch, with a Black Muzzle, and a long Bush Tail. bush-wig n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > types of > bushy busby1770 buzz-wig1798 bush-wig1805 1805 Miniature (1806) No. 34 II. 175 Sober whist is by no means below the dignity of a bush~wig. (b) bush-bearded adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [adjective] > beard > types of > having long-beardedc1400 red-bearded1552 white-bearded1555 whey-bearded1556 grey-bearded1562 black-bearded1577 barbatulousc1600 bush-bearded1615 big-bearded1620 sand-beardeda1641 goateed1847 brown-bearded1882 peach fuzz1932 peach-fuzzed1956 1615 A. Stafford Heavenly Dogge 59 An austere bushbearded Philosopher. 1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. i. 13 He was a fair, huge, bush-bearded man. bush-haired adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > bushy, thick > having shaggeda1000 roughOE thick-hairedc1405 busheda1513 bush-haired1530 maned1530 bush-headed1552 shack-haired1555 mop-headed?1566 shag-haired1577 shag-hair1584 shaggyc1590 rug-headed1597 hirsute1621 hobby-headeda1625 shock1681 shocky1698 shock-head1842 tousled-headed1860 tousle-haired1880 flock-headed1891 thick-piled1976 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 307/1 Busshe heered, crespelleux. bush-headed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > bushy, thick > having shaggeda1000 roughOE thick-hairedc1405 busheda1513 bush-haired1530 maned1530 bush-headed1552 shack-haired1555 mop-headed?1566 shag-haired1577 shag-hair1584 shaggyc1590 rug-headed1597 hirsute1621 hobby-headeda1625 shock1681 shocky1698 shock-head1842 tousled-headed1860 tousle-haired1880 flock-headed1891 thick-piled1976 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bussh hedded, or he that hath a good bussh of heare. bush-tailed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [adjective] > relating to the tail > having a tail > having a bushy tail besom-tailed1695 brushing1734 brush-tailed1853 bushy-tailed1868 bush-tailed1872 1872 W. F. Butler Great Lone Land (1875) xxi. 339 The bush-tailed..clean-legged animals. c. (In sense 9 = ‘in the Bush’). Also bush-ranger n. bush-country n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 1855 W. G. Simms Forayers 544 Who would have thought of any fellow being such a..booby as to bring a bathing-tub..into..bush country? 1859 J. Rochfort in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. (1862) 32 297 In looking across this lake you perceive a flat bush-country. 1954 J. Collin-Smith Scorpion on Stone xx. 291 The lightening landscape of uninhabited scrub and bush-country. bush-farm n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > other farms home farm1749 city farm1750 county farm1785 factory farm1824 bird farm1842 provision farm1846 spade-farm1848 bush-farm1851 poor farm1852 sewage farm1870 cacao farm1871 mixed farm1872 vertical farm1897 prison farm1961 nuplex1968 1851 Househ. Words II. 490 He had been down to the port from his Bush-farm to sell his stuff. bush-farming n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > types of farming high culture1771 scientific farming1789 metaying1792 high farming1815 petite culture1848 sharefarming1857 urban agriculture1860 bush-farming1866 mixed farming1872 dry farming1878 co-aration1883 co-ploughing1883 smallholding1889 power-farming1913 dry-land farming1914 third(s)-and-fourth(s)1940 link system1950 green revolution1968 1866 M. Lemon Wait for End x. 131 His log-house and his bush-farming. bush-fire n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > destructive > bush or forest fire prairie fire1824 bush-fire1847 brush-fire1850 crown fire1893 red steer1936 1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. v. 147 The smoke of extensive bush-fires was observed under Lord's Table Range. 1868 C. W. Dilke Greater Brit. II. iii. iii. 32 The smoke from these bush-fires sometimes extends for hundreds of miles to sea. bush-flat n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 1847 N.Z. Jrnl. 7 cxc. 90 The Ma-Whera river, another very considerable stream running through fine bush flats. 1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 136 Four deer and three hours later we came to a long bush-flat where the trees were enormous. bush-girl n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of > woman or girl bush-girl1822 bushwoman1863 1822 New Monthly Mag. 6 414/2 She was, in fact, the prettiest young Bush-girl I had yet seen. 1963 W. Soyinka Lion & Jewel 9 Bush-girl you are, bush-girl you'll always be; Uncivilized and primitive—bush-girl! bush-hand n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker stockman1806 ranchero1825 ranchman1854 bush-hand1863 station hand1863 jackeroo1864 boundary-rider1865 bush-rider1883 ringer1909 bush-worker1936 stock-boy1937 jillaroo1945 1863 S. Butler First Year Canterbury Settl. x. 147 How many hands shall you want? We will say a couple of good bush hands, who will put up your hut and yards and wool-shed. 1867 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) xxi. 183 First came two of the most experienced ‘bush-hands’. bush-hut n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of lonquhardc1480 hothouse1643 ajoupa1666 penthouse1683 pandal?1692 bark-hut1744 log-tent1748 log cabin1770 bush-hut1775 log-hut1778 yurt1780 isba1784 beach hut1806 whare1807 bough-house1811 pondok1815 grass hut1818 hartebeest house1818 leaf hut1818 gunyah1820 grass house1823 slab-and-bark hut1826 slab-and-shingle hut1826 slab whare1826 rondavel1829 bush-house1835 skerm1835 jacal1838 toldo1839 log-shanty1847 wurley1847 maloca1853 palm hut1853 whare1853 hutmenta1857 bush-shanty1857 benab1860 pondokkie1862 bothan1863 lanaia1869 hogan1872 tenta1873 beehive-hut1884 leaf shelter1886 Oklahoma1889 goondie1890 cabana1898 troolie hut1899 tukul1901 fale1902 banda1908 kya1909 hut1913 obi1913 Nissen hut1917 Nissen1919 basha1921 tourist cabin1928 bunkie1935 wanigan1937 Quonset hut1942 chickee1943 iron lung1943 Quonset1943 1775 S. Thayer Jrnl. (1867) 12 Our troops..had not the satisfaction..to build..a Bush hut to pass the tedious night in. 1867 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) xxi. 181 The mistress of this charming bush-hut insisted on our having some hot coffee. 1885 R. C. Praed Austral. Life iii. 73 The usual bush hut of slabs and bark. bush-inn n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > inn guest housec1000 innc1230 hostry1377 host1382 harbergeryc1384 hostelc1384 hostelryc1386 harbergagea1400 hostelar1424 hostagec1440 innsc1550 host-house1570 fondaco1599 change1609 auberge1615 sporting house1615 albergo1617 rancho1648 change-housea1653 posada1652 public house1655 inn-house1677 funduq1684 locanda1770 fonda1777 livery tavern1787 roadhouse1806 meson1817 tambo1830 gasthaus1834 estalagem1835 caravanserai1848 temperance inna1849 sala1871 bush-inn1881 ryokan1914 B & B1918 pousada1949 minshuku1970 1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. 59 The driver paused before a bush inn. bush-knot n. ΚΠ 1880 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland viii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 76/1 Holding the long sweeping tail, tangled in a huge bush-knot. bush-land n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 1842 C. Heaphy Narr. Residence N.Z. viii. 103 The bush land will be cleared with less..expense than at Wellington. 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. xlvii. 366 All the Bush-land..was on fire. 1868 C. W. Dilke Greater Brit. II. iii. ii. 14 Tropical bush-lands in which sheep-farming is impossible. bush-life n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > way of life > [noun] > specific > life in the bush bush-life1849 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons xvii. ci, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 391/2 The memory of that wild Bush-life. bush-line n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > edge or limit of rimeOE skirt1598 bush-line1889 1889 R. Paulin Wild West Coast N.Z. xiv. 119 Fresh snow..came down to within 2000 feet of sea level—i.e., considerably below the bush-line. 1955 J. K. Baxter Fire & Anvil iii. 58 A hut above the bush-line of the Southern Alps. bush-range n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > grassland > range range1640 buffalo-range1775 open range1853 bush-range1879 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 1879 T. W. Gudgeon Reminisc. War N.Z. xii. 70 Allowing the Hauhaus to erect a strong pah in the bush-ranges. bush-rider n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker stockman1806 ranchero1825 ranchman1854 bush-hand1863 station hand1863 jackeroo1864 boundary-rider1865 bush-rider1883 ringer1909 bush-worker1936 stock-boy1937 jillaroo1945 1883 Field 10 Feb. 199 The tremendous stock whips of the Australian bush-riders. bush-school n. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > hedge- or bush-school hedge-school1807 bush-school1852 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes III. ii. 61 The humble hedge-school—or rather bush-school..—and a crowd of flaxen..children rushing from its porch. 1896 H. Lawson While Billy Boils 1 You remember when we hurried home from the old bush school. 1936 G. Greene Journey without Maps ii. 97 Even in the Sierra Leone Protectorate..most natives..will attend a bush school. 1942 J. S. Huxley in Polit. Q. XIII. 395 Over most of Africa..not 10 per cent of the schools are anything but the most primitive sub-elementary bush-schools, confining themselves to hymn-singing, the catechism, and the rudiments of the three R's. bush-shanty n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of lonquhardc1480 hothouse1643 ajoupa1666 penthouse1683 pandal?1692 bark-hut1744 log-tent1748 log cabin1770 bush-hut1775 log-hut1778 yurt1780 isba1784 beach hut1806 whare1807 bough-house1811 pondok1815 grass hut1818 hartebeest house1818 leaf hut1818 gunyah1820 grass house1823 slab-and-bark hut1826 slab-and-shingle hut1826 slab whare1826 rondavel1829 bush-house1835 skerm1835 jacal1838 toldo1839 log-shanty1847 wurley1847 maloca1853 palm hut1853 whare1853 hutmenta1857 bush-shanty1857 benab1860 pondokkie1862 bothan1863 lanaia1869 hogan1872 tenta1873 beehive-hut1884 leaf shelter1886 Oklahoma1889 goondie1890 cabana1898 troolie hut1899 tukul1901 fale1902 banda1908 kya1909 hut1913 obi1913 Nissen hut1917 Nissen1919 basha1921 tourist cabin1928 bunkie1935 wanigan1937 Quonset hut1942 chickee1943 iron lung1943 Quonset1943 1857 S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 169 Crop crept close alongside of me, in our bush-shanty. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms III. xi. 161 Like a man in..a bush shanty, not likely to wake before sunrise. 1924 H. T. Gibson That Gibbie Galoot 66 Most bush shanties possess such a butt. bush-track n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > through bush bush road1827 bush-track1832 1832 New S. Wales Cal. & G.P.O. Directory 51 Several bush tracks lead to the farms. 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee i. 17 He..catches his father's favourite mare..and drives like mad over the five miles of rough bush track. 1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 12 It was the shooter going to work, following a bush track that skirted the box flat. bush-walking n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking on specific type of terrain bog-trotting1762 bush-walking1853 tabbing1982 yomping1982 1853 in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 133 Beyond it there are two miles of bush walking along what is called ‘a line’. 1957 Times 2 Dec. 9/6 Four members of a bushwalking club who were burnt to death when trapped by a bush fire in the Blue Mountains yesterday. 1959 Times 23 Sept. 1/4 Experience in out-door life such as skiing..bushwalking. bush-walk n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking on specific type of terrain > an act of bush-walk1956 1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 196 Nothing deters young hikers from going bare-legged on bushwalks. bush-walker n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > on specific type of terrain bog-trotter1700 bush-walker1955 1955 Times 21 June 9/5 Four hundred soldiers, police and bush-walkers..are searching 5,000 ft Mount Baw Baw for Mihran Haig. bush-work n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > type or spell of work or payment plough-tail?1523 threaving1768 rounds1795 tut1800 yoking1812 bush-work1830 stoop labour1943 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii. xi. 167 I knew as little of bush-work as any other store-keeper or mechanic. 1852 Fraser's Mag. 45 240 The sort of service that fits..for the bush-work of the Cape. bush-worker n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker stockman1806 ranchero1825 ranchman1854 bush-hand1863 station hand1863 jackeroo1864 boundary-rider1865 bush-rider1883 ringer1909 bush-worker1936 stock-boy1937 jillaroo1945 1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King v. 41 He found a fair sale from travelling bush-workers. d. (Extended use of sense 9, passing into adj.) Crude; rough and ready; without the formal training or qualifications usually considered necessary for an occupation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined boistousc1300 untheweda1325 uplandisha1387 unaffiled1390 rudea1393 knavishc1405 peoplisha1425 clubbedc1440 blunt1477 lob?1507 robust1511 borel1513 carterly1519 clubbish1530 rough?1531 rustical?1532 incondite1539 agrestc1550 rusticc1550 brute1555 lobcocka1556 loutisha1556 carterlike1561 boorish1562 ruggedc1565 lobbish1567 loutlike1567 sowish1570 clownish1581 unrefined1582 impolished1583 homespun1590 transalpinea1592 swaddish1593 unpolished1594 untutored1595 swabberly1596 tartarous1602 porterly1603 lobcocked1606 lob-like1606 cluster-fisted1611 agrestic1617 inurbane1623 unelevated1627 incult1628 unbrushed1640 vulgar1643 unhewed1644 unsmooth1648 hirsute1658 loutardly1658 unhewn1659 roughsome?c1660 sordid1668 inhumanea1680 coarse1699 brutal1709 ramgunshoch1721 tramontane1740 uncouth1740 no-nationa1756 unurbane1760 turnipy1792 rudas1802 common1804 cubbish1819 clodhopping1828 vulgarian1833 cloddish1844 unkempt1846 bush1851 vulgarish1860 rodney1866 crude1876 ignorant1886 yobby1910 nekulturny1932 oikish1959 yobbish1966 ocker1972 down and dirty1977 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > having no qualification > not adequately qualified underqualified1624 bush1851 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > not displaying technical skill > not elaborately made rustic1600 uncurious1605 incurious1615 rural1624 inelaborate1650 bush1851 1851 E. J. Wakefield Let. to Sir G. Grey 31 The stock-owner, though brought up as a gentleman, if he lives long in the ‘bush’, learns first to be proud of the ‘bush’ manners, and then becomes unfit for any but ‘bush’ society. 1870 R. P. Whitworth Martin's Bay Settlement 48/2 I found..tied to a stick (a bush candlestick), about two inches of candle. 1873 M. A. Barker Station Amusem. N.Z. vi. 101 He was what is called a bush-carpenter: i.e. a wandering carpenter, who travels from station to station, doing any little odd jobs wanted. 1873 M. A. Barker Station Amusem. N.Z. ix. 150 A bush doctor..was likely to be round by Simmons', cos o' his missus. 1891 G. Chamier Philosopher Dick I. vi. 141 The table was laid in regular bush style, with tin plates and pannikins, iron forks and spoons. 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee ix. 115 Pilkins' gate, a skilful piece of rough bush carpentry, swinging on a wooden pivot. 1933 E. Jones Autobiogr. Early Settler xi. 52 As it was too far to get a tradesman up for any repairs, we were all, what was called, ‘Bush Carpenters’. 1944 Return to Attack (Army Board, N.Z.) 9/2 Any available timber was turned into ingenious bush furniture. 1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 114 I..put nine stitches in his [sc. the dog's] side with a pack-needle and string... He recovered..from both the wound and the bush surgery. C2. Special combinations. See also bush-buck n., bush-fighter n., etc. † bush adder n. Obsolete (see quot., and cf. boske addre n. at bosk n. Derivatives). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake) > that lives in woods or trees wood-snake1585 bush adder1611 tree-serpent1731 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Dryophis wood-snake1585 bush adder1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Anguille de bois..the bush Adder, or wood snake. bush antelope n. ? = bush-buck n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Tragelaphinae > genus Tragelaphus (tragelaph) > Tragelaphus scriptus (bush-buck) guib1774 wood-goat1785 bosch-bok1786 harnessed antelopec1789 wood-deer1812 bush antelope1834 bush-buck1852 bush-goat1865 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 81/1 The Bush Antelope (A. silvicultrix), called bush-goat by the English residents at Sierra Leone. bush-baby n. an African lemur of the species Galago senegalensis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > [noun] > member of suborder Prosimii (lemurs, etc.) > family Lorisidae > genus Galago (bush-baby) galago1817 gum-animal1840 bush-baby1901 1901 A. R. R. Turnbull Tales from Natal 81 The occasional cry of a bush-baby alone broke the awful silence. 1928 Daily Tel. 15 May 14/3 Two bush babies, the pets of Baroness de Tuyll. bush baptist n. slang (chiefly Australian and New Zealand) (see quot. 1959). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > atheism > [noun] > person wanbelieverc1440 unbeliever1526 infidela1530 nullifidian1564 atheist1571 sceptic1638 disbeliever1648 non-believer1649 scorner1651 scoffer1691 sceptic-Christian1711 nothingarian1776 nothingist1797 no-religionist1827 nihilist1854 netheist1855 non-theist1857 agnostic1869 nescient1872 post-Christian1886 bush baptist1902 no-Goddite1952 1902 J. Milne Epist. Atkins i. 18 Nothing is left to the imagination by the corporal who ranks himself among ‘Bush Baptists and other fancy religions’, in order to evade Sunday Service. 1959 S. J. Baker Drum 97 Bush Baptist, a person of dubious religious persuasion or one who has no religious persuasion at all. Rare. bush basil n. Ocymum minimum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > other labiate plants dictamnusOE MarrubiumOE dittany1552 water horehound1578 bush basil1597 gypsy herb1726 Perilla1783 gypsywort1787 Malabar catmint1813 chia1832 nettle geranium1860 gas plant1863 coleus1885 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 547 Bush Basill, or fine Basill, is a low and base plant. bush-bean n. the American name for the Kidney bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > kidney beans or kidney bean plants French bean1542 kidney bean1548 fasels1562 frijoles1568 Welsh bean1585 longbean1587 cock stone1631 haricot1653 string-bean1759 snap-bean1770 bunch-bean1787 butter bean1820 bush-bean1821 snaps1845 navy bean1851 cannellini1862 flageolet1877 wax bean1905 pinto bean1913 wax-pod bean1921 borlotti1932 1821 Plough Boy II. 358/3 An opinion prevails here (Columbus, Ohio) that our soil is too rich, for the profitable culture of the bush bean, (called, I believe, at the eastward, the fisher bean). 1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 518 We usually plant bush beans in garden drills. 1887 Harper's Mag. Jan. 307/2 Those who need much instruction in regard to bush-beans should remain in the city. bush-beater n. (a) = bushwhacker n. 1; (b) (cf. sense to beat the bush at sense 1b (figurative)). ΚΠ 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. iv. 108 Such was the legion of sturdy bush-beaters that poured into the grand gate of New Amsterdam. 1897 W. C. Hazlitt Ourselves v. 64 [Girls at bazaar] Many bush-beaters, one hare-catcher—the dear, good rector! † bush-bill n. Obsolete ? a bill-hook. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > bill hook wood-billc725 billc1000 falsartc1380 wood-hookc1440 falchion1483 forest-bill1488 bush-scythe1552 brush-bill1588 cutting-bill1601 bill-hook1611 hook-bill1613 bush-bill1631 hack1846 snagger1847 slasher1858 bush-hook1860 slash-hook1891 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes v. §11. 421 Such men are more fit..to carrie a bush-bill rather then a battell-axe. bushboy n. a native Australian or South African bushman. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of bushboya1834 Melbournite1838 Melburnian1838 bushman1846 Vandemonian1852 scrubber1859 Queenslander1860 Victorian1862 Sydneysider1865 Centralian1875 Waler1880 Territorian1882 mutton-bird1892 bushy1896 sand-groper1896 tothersider1896 crow-eater1899 Bananalander1900 outbacker1900 Tassie1905 groper1924 Tasmanian1934 mutton-bird eater1941 Top-Ender1941 Kanakalander1945 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > countries or regions Angolan1600 Angola1653 Malay1765 South African1806 Ngwaketsea1832 bushboya1834 Kapenaar1834 Transkeian1847 bosch-man1849 Natalian1850 burgher1879 Transvaaler1887 veldman1895 Rhodesian1897 Vaalpens1899 backvelder1911 plattelander1934 southwester1960 Zimbabwean1961 Zambian1963 Botswanian1966 Botswanan1967 Namibian1968 Ciskeian1973 Sowetan1974 a1834 T. Pringle Poet. Wks. (1839) 8 Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. vii. 129 I found a funny little fellow in the shape of the Bushboy before alluded to awaiting my arrival. 1899 J. Milne Romance of Pro-Consul xiv. 149 He would..shoulder his rifle, and start off, with a couple of bush-boys for gillies. Bush Brotherhood n. a society of missionaries, clerical and lay, established to evangelize the inhabitants of the Australian bush. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts > collectively > specific Bush Brotherhood1903 1903 Daily Chron. 7 Nov. 5/5 Founding a Bush Brotherhood under the direction of the Bishop. Bush Brother n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > bush brother > [noun] Bush Brother1930 1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Mar. 31/2 The Bush Brother turned out to be a woman, born in Queensland. 1950 ‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice 315 They were married by a travelling Church of England priest, one of the Bush Brothers. bush burn n. New Zealand the burning of bush on cultivable land; land so cleared. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > reclaimed or improved land carrc1330 improvement1473 polder1602 dam1629 innam1662 inningsa1669 beaver meadow1784 slobland1843 polderland1849 bush burn1861 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > burning off refuse burrow1602 denshiring1607 burning1669 burn-baking1769 burn1792 burning off1800 burnbeating1808 stifle-burning1844 burn-off1861 bush burn1861 bush-burning1898 slash-burning1919 1861 W. Morgan Jrnl. 27 Apr. (1963) iii. 29 Last week sowed some grass seed on bush burn. 1900 J. G. Wilson in Rep. Agric. Societies N.Z. 132 On bush-burns, if sown at the rate of a few pounds per acre [cocksfoot] rapidly takes possession. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Dec. 508/3 Thousands of acres were ploughed (much of it after a bush burn). 1964 Weekly News (Auckland) 22 Jan. 39/2 To burn everything cleanly but the heavy trunks is so important to the success of a bush burn. bush-burning n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > burning off refuse burrow1602 denshiring1607 burning1669 burn-baking1769 burn1792 burning off1800 burnbeating1808 stifle-burning1844 burn-off1861 bush burn1861 bush-burning1898 slash-burning1919 1898 J. Bell In Shadow of Bush xxx. 198 The season promised to be a good one for bush-burning. bush canary n. the popular name of various birds in Australia and New Zealand (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Acanthizinae > genus Mohua yellowhead1773 bush canary1904 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Acanthizinae > genus Gerygone warbler1790 rainbird1817 riroriro1835 fly-eater1895 bush-warbler1898 bush canary1904 1904 F. W. Hutton & J. Drummond Animals N.Z. ii. 91 The Bush Canary. Mohua ochrocephala... The New Zealand Canary has a sharp, strident call, and its movements are quick and active. 1918 Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Feb. Red Page 4 White-throated Flyeater (Bush Canary) and other members of the genus Gerygone. 1936 H. Guthrie-Smith Sorrows & Joys N.Z. Naturalist viii. 67 The rain-forests beloved of the Bush Canary. 1946 J. C. Andersen in Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. June 154 Mohua, a gregarious bird (Mohoua ochrocephala), South Island form of the bush-canary, the North Island form (Mohoua albicilla) being upokotea. bush-car n. (see quot. 1926). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > used in the bush bush-dray1848 bush-car1921 1921 Rec. Home & Foreign Mission Wk. United Free Church Scotl. Apr. 116/1 She left at midday in a bush-car. 1926 Rec. Home & Foreign Mission Wk. United Free Church Scotl. May 227/1 The bush-car is an arm-chair placed high above one wheel, excellent for the narrow paths and high grass of Africa. bush-cat n. the Serval or Tiger-cat of South Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Felis > felis serval (serval) leopard cat1773 serval1775 bush-cat1780 1780 Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 2 The common Bush-cat of the Cape. 1780 Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 3 Kolbe..speaks of a Tyger Bush-cat, which he describes as the largest of all the Wild Cats of the Cape-countries. bush-chat n. a bird, one of the Chats or Saxicolæ. bush cow n. (a) a wild cow of the bush; (b) the tapir. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) > [noun] > with hoof in more than two parts > family Tapiridae (tapir) ante1596 dante1601 mountain cow1699 tapir1774 bush cow1847 tapiridian1880 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Bovinae (bovine) > [noun] > wild oxOE buglea1382 oryxa1382 buff1552 reem1607 bran1688 bush cow1847 1847 A. Harris Settlers & Convicts xiv. 287 On a new farm..the stockyard..is necessary for milking bush cows. 1851 W. H. Brett Indian Missions Guiana 37 The tapir or maipuri, called the bush-cow by the settlers. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 734 The bush cow came on, and drove its horns through his thigh. bushcraft n. skill in matters pertaining to life in the bush. ΚΠ 1871 C. L. Money Knocking about in N.Z. iii. 29 He gave me my first lessons in bushcraft such as a knowledge of edible roots, modes of crossing rivers, snaring birds. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 22 July 4/2 Leichardt perished..because he lacked the rudiments of bushcraft. 1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxvi. 324 Real scouting and bush-craft will always be part of the station life. Categories » bush-creepers n. a group of tropical birds belonging to the family of the Warblers. bush dassie n. a South African hyrax, Dendrohyrax arboreus arboreus; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > [noun] > order Hyracoidea or genus Procavia > other types of bush dassie1911 1911 East London Daily Dispatch (S. Afr.) 20 Dec. 5 Bush dassie flesh was the staple food for the Hottentots. bush deer n. in West Africa, a gazelle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Antilopinae > genus Gazella (gazelle) gazelle1600 bush deer1897 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 734 He..put his net into the forest, and caught bush deer (gazelles). bush dog n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > other types red wolf1823 hill-fox1838 kuri1838 zorro1838 Falkland Island wolf1857 bush dog1883 guara1884 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 438/2 Icticyon, with one small species, Canis venaticus, the Bush Dog, from Guiana and Brazil. bush-draining n. the draining of land by trenches filled with brushwood. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage gutteringc1420 strand1565 sewaging1610 thorough-draining1669 cuniculus1670 French drain1738 riggot?1746 bush-draining1748 surface drain1765 land-drain1767 pipe-draining1776 surface draining1777 fox1784 surface drainage1796 mole drain1804 soughing1808 acequia1811 well-draining1818 tile-draining1830 wedge-draining?1830 plug-draining1833 land-drainage1841 land-draining1841 mole-draining1842 trough gutter1856 mole-ditching1860 mole drainage1860 tile-drainagea1865 well point1867 karez1875 storm sewer1887 moling1943 tiling1943 storm drain1960 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) II. 173 These last cold and wet Lands have been..greatly improv'd by draining off the Rain-water..an Invention, called Bush-draining. bush-dray n. Australian (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > used in the bush bush-dray1848 bush-car1921 1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. v. 48 The bush-dray, the only vehicle used in New South Wales for the conveyance of wool and other produce, is open and low, more resembling a brewer's dray than any other description of dray known in England. bush-drive n. a drive of game in the South African bush. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > beating, etc. stablyc1400 ring-walk1575 breviting1600 battue1816 beat1876 bush-drive1899 1899 Proc. Zool. Soc. 831 At the bush-drives so common in the [Cape] Colony, Blue-buck are seldom turned out. bush eel n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] > snake bush eel1828 1828 W. Hone Table Bk. II. 224 At this season when persons, at inns in Lincolnshire, ask for ‘eel pie’, they are presently provided with ‘bush eels’; namely snakes, caught for that purpose in the bushes. 1965 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Snakes vii. 160 In hard times the grass snake and other species were eaten as ‘hedge eels’ or ‘bush eels’. bush-faller n. one who cuts down timber in the Bush. ΘΚΠ 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 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 June 2/1 A broken-down, deserted shanty, inhabited once, perhaps, by rail-splitters, or bush-fallers. bush-falling n. the felling of trees in the bush. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > felling trees fallinga1425 felling1447 fell1531 fall1535 woodfall1588 slaughter1657 logging1706 tree-felling1759 fallage1788 slashing1822 fellage1839 wood-cutting1872 throw1879 bush-falling1882 drive1899 bushwhacking1906 clear-cutting1922 coupe1922 landnam1950 1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. 184 We worked steadily at bush-falling. 1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxii. 203 Bush-falling had barely been started. bush flea n. South African a variety of Pulex. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Siphonaptera or fleas > [noun] > member of genus pulex bush flea1899 1899 G. Russell Hist. Old Durban 503 The Bush Flea..is quite content to share your camp blanket if you do not resent his liberty of action. bush-fly n. an Australian blowfly of the family Calliphoridæ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > member of flesh-fly1388 butcher fly1633 blowfly1729 yellow-bottle1855 bush-fly1934 1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. xxvii. 172 No sooner were the bush-flies at rest than plagues of sand-flies would rise up to take their places. 1952 M. Boyd Cardboard Crown v. 85 The room..was thick with the buzzing of bush-flies, a species of blow-fly. bush-goat n. = bush-buck n.; a South African warbler, Camaroptera brachyura. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of tailor-bird1769 rubythroat1783 bush-goat1865 Cetti's warbler1875 tree-warbler1881 gnat-catcher1883 crombec1901 wren-warbler1924 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Tragelaphinae > genus Tragelaphus (tragelaph) > Tragelaphus scriptus (bush-buck) guib1774 wood-goat1785 bosch-bok1786 harnessed antelopec1789 wood-deer1812 bush antelope1834 bush-buck1852 bush-goat1865 1865 Athenæum No. 1948. 279/1 A new species of Bush-goat. 1908 A. K. Haagner & R. H. Ivy Sketches S. Afr. Bird-life 79 This Warbler is called the Bush-goat on account of the plaintive goat-like call to which the bird gives utterance. bush gourd n. the squash gourd, Cucurbita melopepo. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > squash melon-pompion1577 simnel1640 squash1643 cushaw1698 simlin1775 squash-pumpkin1819 squash gourd1823 summer crookneck1832 melon pumpkin1840 bush gourd1842 crook-neck1844 Hubbard squash1868 mirliton1901 butternut pumpkin1916 buttercup1930 butternut1940 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 605 The Squash-melon pumpkin, or bush gourd. Thesaurus » Categories » bush-grass n. Calamagrostis epigejos. bush-hawk n. the New Zealand falcon, Falco novæseelandiæ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > other types of carrion-kite1581 chickenhawk?a1775 New Zealand falcon1781 shaheen1839 falconet1851 prairie falcon1858 Eleonora falcon1859 quail hawk1873 bush-hawk1882 longwing1964 1882 W. L. Buller Man. Birds N.Z. 2 The Bush-Hawk is generally met with on the outskirts of the woods. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 54 No Kestrel is found in New Zealand, but an approach to the form is made by the very peculiar Hieracidea (or Harpe) novæ-zelandiæ..the ‘Sparrow-Hawk’, ‘Quail-Hawk’, and ‘Bush-Hawk’ of the colonists. bush-hen n. New Zealand the weka, Gallirallus australis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > gallirallus ausralis (weka) water hen1770 wood-hen1773 weka1845 ocydrome1884 bush-hen1939 1939 J. Mulgan Man Alone 80 Bush-hens were calling across the valley. bush-hog n. a wild pig of South Africa, the bosch-vaark of the colonists. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > genus Potamochoerus (African bush-pig) wood-swine1785 Guinea hog1788 river hog1803 bosch-vark1834 bush-pig1840 bush-hog1854 red river hog1868 1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 66 By good luck we came on a bush-hog. bush-hook n. a bill-hook (U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > bill hook wood-billc725 billc1000 falsartc1380 wood-hookc1440 falchion1483 forest-bill1488 bush-scythe1552 brush-bill1588 cutting-bill1601 bill-hook1611 hook-bill1613 bush-bill1631 hack1846 snagger1847 slasher1858 bush-hook1860 slash-hook1891 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career iv. 55 The old man took down a bush-hook that hung upon a post near the mill. 1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 44/1 Shrubs that..had run the gauntlet of the bush-hook. bush-house n. a house or hut in the bush; in Australia, also one in a (suburban) garden. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of lonquhardc1480 hothouse1643 ajoupa1666 penthouse1683 pandal?1692 bark-hut1744 log-tent1748 log cabin1770 bush-hut1775 log-hut1778 yurt1780 isba1784 beach hut1806 whare1807 bough-house1811 pondok1815 grass hut1818 hartebeest house1818 leaf hut1818 gunyah1820 grass house1823 slab-and-bark hut1826 slab-and-shingle hut1826 slab whare1826 rondavel1829 bush-house1835 skerm1835 jacal1838 toldo1839 log-shanty1847 wurley1847 maloca1853 palm hut1853 whare1853 hutmenta1857 bush-shanty1857 benab1860 pondokkie1862 bothan1863 lanaia1869 hogan1872 tenta1873 beehive-hut1884 leaf shelter1886 Oklahoma1889 goondie1890 cabana1898 troolie hut1899 tukul1901 fale1902 banda1908 kya1909 hut1913 obi1913 Nissen hut1917 Nissen1919 basha1921 tourist cabin1928 bunkie1935 wanigan1937 Quonset hut1942 chickee1943 iron lung1943 Quonset1943 1835 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major (new ed.) xli. 367 Saratogue, for politicians, is jist like the bush-houses for killing pigeons. 1901 F. Campbell Love ix. 133 Let us have ices in the bush-house. 1902 W. Satchell Land of Lost xviii. 164 ‘Come around to the bush-house.’.. They seated themselves together on a rustic seat among the ferns. 1939 J. Cary Mister Johnson 11 The station..consists of six old bush houses, with blackened thatch reaching almost to the ground. 1959 ‘M. Neville’ Sweet Night for Murder xviii. 175 The bush-house..was made of brushwood and housed seed boxes..indoor plants, and bulbs under sacks waiting for planting. bush honeysuckle n. name for the shrubs of the genus Diervilla, nearly allied to the common honeysuckle, natives of North America and Japan. ΚΠ 1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 232 Diervilla..humilis (bush honeysuckle). 1883 Amer. Naturalist 17 888 When the fruit of the bush honeysuckle..began to ripen in June, the old birds visited the shrub often and ate very freely of the berries. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 24/2 A screen of bush honeysuckle along the road, a little pool, and a few hemlocks..furnish the main accessories. 2004 Nat. New Eng. Winter 8/3 Invasive shrubs such as common buckthorn, Rhamnus cathartica, and bush honeysuckle..are transforming areas of forest understory. bush jacket n. a belted cotton jacket. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jacket > made of specific material cork-jacket1762 zamarra1841 worsted1905 Cossack1919 bush jacket1939 leathers1962 puffa1975 1939 M. B. Picken Lang. Fashion 16/1 Bush jacket or coat, belted, hip-length jacket. 1959 ‘M. Derby’ Tigress ii. 62 He took the plastic flask from his bush-jacket pocket. 1961 Listener 24 Aug. 292/2 The familiar picture of Fidel Castro with beard, bush-jacket and peak-cap. bush-lawyer n. (a) the New Zealand Bramble ( Rubus australis); (b) Australian and New Zealand, a layman who fancies he has a knowledge of law; an argumentative person; see also quot. 1874. ΘΚΠ society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > legal knowledge or skill > one who fancies himself knowledgeable bush-lawyer1853 barrack-room lawyer1943 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > bramble or blackberry bush bramblec1000 bramble-brierc1000 bremberOE brierc1000 hound's thornc1420 bramec1425 blackberry?1550 bramble-bush1579 stone bramble1744 raunce1840 bush-lawyer1853 lawyer1857 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > mining agent bush-lawyer1853 1853 Fraser's Mag. 48 258 Half dead with their long struggle against the ‘bush-lawyer’, a tough and tangled bramble. 1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences xvi. 225 The bush lawyers, or mining agents, which is the name they accept,..are of great use to the diggers. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 13 A ‘bush’ carpenter is a very admirable person, when he is not also a bush lawyer. 1926 ‘J. Doone’ Timely Tips for New Australians Gloss. Bush-lawyer, a man who gratuitously voices legal opinions although possessing no qualifications for doing so. 1933 N. Scanlan Tides of Youth viii. 91 You're a regular bush-lawyer. 1948 B. James in Coast to Coast 1947 168 Mrs. Bolton loved the touch of legality, being a good deal of a bush lawyer. 1948 V. Palmer Golconda iv. 29 It's easier to find a bush-lawyer than a man who's bent his back at all sorts of jobs. bush-light n. U.S. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1838 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron 82 A bush-light was flaming near Jaque's habitation. [Note] A fire of light wood kindled on a small mound of earth. bushloper n. U.S. one who tramps through the bush or wilderness, a pedlar. ΚΠ 1893 E. Eggleston Duffels Pref. p. iii The outfit of this young ‘bushloper’, as such a man was called in the still earlier Dutch period. bush-magpie n. an Australian crow-shrike of the genus Gymnorhina. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Cracticidae > gymnorhina tibicen magpie1792 piping crow1832 organ bird1847 flute-bird1862 bush-magpie1890 maggie1901 1890 E. E. Morris Cassell's Picturesque Australasia II. 235 The College precincts are sacred to the classic muse and the omnipresent bush-magpie. bush-master n. a very venomous South American snake. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > subfamily Crotalinae > member of genus Lachesis (bush-master) labaria1825 bush-master1826 mapepire1838 surucucu1845 palm viper1896 1826 Edinb. Rev. 43 300 The most venomous of reptiles, and known by the name of the bush-master. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 267 The couni-couchi, or bush-master, is the most dreaded of all the South American snakes. bush-meeting n. U.S. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Bush meeting, a gathering in the woods for the purpose of open-air preaching, and other religious exercises. bush nurse n. a qualified nurse who is ‘on call’ in the remote districts of Australia. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > nurse > [noun] > in Australia bush nurse1933 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 28 June 20/4 He was under the bush nurse for a fortnight. bush partridge n. a South African name of a species of francolin, Francolinus subtorquatus. ΚΠ 1909 South Afr. Field 30 July 141 My companions called it (Coquifrancolin) the bush partridge. bush-pig n. (a) a species of South African swine, Potamochœrus porcus koiropotamus; (b) New Zealand a wild pig. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > genus Potamochoerus (African bush-pig) wood-swine1785 Guinea hog1788 river hog1803 bosch-vark1834 bush-pig1840 bush-hog1854 red river hog1868 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > sus scrofa (wild boar and descendants) > wild boar evereOE swineOE boarc1000 wild boar?c1225 wilrone1508 bush-pig1840 wild pig1840 tusker1859 Captain Cooker1879 1840 J. S. Polack Manners & Customs New Zealanders II. 270 The narrator had been hunting the cochon maron or bush-pig. 1844 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Mauritius & S. Afr. 213 The Bosch Vark, Bush Pig. 1907 W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 20 Mutton down to the price of bush-pig. 1910 J. Buchan Prester John xiv. 230 I was inclined to think him a very large bush-pig. bush pilot n. the pilot of an aeroplane which flies over sparsely inhabited country (chiefly North American). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > person in control of aircraft or spacecraft > person in control of aircraft > other aeroplane pilots test pilot1917 airline pilot1922 bush pilot1936 brown shoe1946 tug pilot1948 1936 Beaver Mar. 52/2 The northern bush pilot is dependent solely on his own good judgement, resourcefulness and initiative. 1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway ix. 243 The pilot was to be a civilian bush-pilot called Hennessey, a thick-set tough who knew that country [sc. Labrador] intimately. 1948 Shell Aviation News cxxv. 2/1 The small aircraft, usually single-engined, flown by the bush pilot. bush poppy n. either of two poppies which grow as shrubs, native to California: Romneya coulteri (with large white flowers), and Dendromecon rigida (with yellow flowers); also called tree poppy. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > American or West Indian ramgoat bush1566 burton-wood1697 cowage cherry1725 Jack-in-the-busha1726 screw tree1739 lady of the night1752 goatweed1756 solandra1797 silk-tassel1833 garrya1835 matico1839 choisya1840 Romneya1845 jointer1847 creosote-bush1851 creosote-plant1854 bridal wreath1856 ocotillo1856 adelaster1863 sage rose1864 white horse1864 tree poppy1866 Tacsonia1869 rain tree1877 piquillin bush1884 tassel-bush1891 bush poppy1899 Mexican orange1923 shrimp plant1941 1899 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 3) Romneya (White Bush Poppy). 1900 W. D. Drury Bk. Gardening 281 Californian Bush Poppy. 1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 51 A marked plant is the bush poppy (Dendromecon rigidum). bush-quail n. (a) a hemipod n.; (b) an Indian bird of the genus Perdicula (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1893). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > miscellaneous members gold pheasant1765 white-eared1780 cheer1826 tragopan1829 koklass1864 tree-partridge1864 wood-quail1891 bush-quail1893 swamp quail1895 the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > member of family Turnicidae > genus Turnix (button-quail) Turnix1819 quail1848 buttonquail1854 hemipod1862 bush-quail1893 1893 H. A. Bryden Gun & Camera Southern Afr. 158 Tiny bush-quail (Turnix lepurana), dainty creatures, scarcely bigger than sparrows. 1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 625/1 The so-called ‘bush quails’ of India (Perdicula) are dwarf partridges. bush-rat n. a popular name for many small rodents. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Neotema (wood-rat) wood-rat1767 bush-rat1867 trade rat1876 trading rat1881 pack rat1885 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Mus or mouse > other types of rock rat1781 rock mouse1843 pouched mouse1853 coffee-rat1859 bush-rat1867 brown-footed rat1884 rex1928 1867 E. Coues in Amer. Naturalist 1 399 The Bush Rat (Neotoma Mexicana) is abundant throughout the Territory [sc. Arizona]. 1890 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1889 22 301 On the habits of the New Zealand Bush-rat (Mus maorium). 1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxii. 213 There were bush rats and water rats. 1966 Southerly 26 93 You, long-dead entomologist Sidney, like this bush rat, have found the crumbling edge cave in. bush road n. a road through the Bush. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > through bush bush road1827 bush-track1832 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales I. vii. 123 A made bush-road is one where the brushes have been cleared, banks of rivers and gullies levelled, [etc.]..; while a natural bush-road signifies one to which nothing has been done except notching the trees, the carts simply following each other's track. 1857 W. Westgarth Victoria & Gold Mines xi. 250 The gloomy antithesis of good bush-rangers and bad bush-roads. 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee i. 2 Along the side of the Ironbark ranges was a bush road, leading to the hamlet. 1966 Weekly News (N.Z.) 1 June 43/2 In the area that we visited, which is already served by the bush road, we saw isolated kauri trees more than five feet in diameter. bush robin n. the popular name esp. in Africa of various small birds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > miscellaneous groups or types Strasbourg finch1783 oscines1853 New Zealand robin1855 lark bunting1858 boat-billed flycatcher1869 oscine1883 bush robin1901 antpitta1911 boatbill1930 parson bird1945 1901 A. C. Stark Birds S. Afr. II. 217 Tarsiger stellatus. White-starred Bush Robin. 1901 A. C. Stark Birds S. Afr. II. 219 Tarsiger silens. Silent Bush Robin. 1932 Discovery July 231/2 No bird calls but the bush-robin with chrome-yellow underparts and silver stars on his slate-blue forehead. bush-scythe n. a bill-hook. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > bill hook wood-billc725 billc1000 falsartc1380 wood-hookc1440 falchion1483 forest-bill1488 bush-scythe1552 brush-bill1588 cutting-bill1601 bill-hook1611 hook-bill1613 bush-bill1631 hack1846 snagger1847 slasher1858 bush-hook1860 slash-hook1891 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Byl called a forest bil, or bush-sithe. 1856 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 7 54 D. O. and W. S. Perry..[exhibited] three bush scythes. 1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 194 It is possible to subdue them..by cutting them off near the ground with a bush-scythe. bush-sheep n. U.S. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by habitat mountain sheep1596 fold1669 heath-cropper1819 bush-sheep1870 1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 457 Sheep shipped in for sale because they ‘didn't flourish’ on prairie grass. These ‘bush sheep’, as they are called, have been in abundant supply. bush shirt n. a loose-fitting light shirt worn by men in hot climates. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other bloody shirta1586 ruffle shirt1749 ruffled shirt1754 dicky1781 overshirt1805 camise1812 mill tog1821 boiled shirt1853 Crimean shirt1853 Crimea shirt1857 shirtwaist1859 shirt1867 polo shirt1887 zephyr1887 Ghost Shirt1890 Henley1890 negligée shirt1895 turtle-neck1897 rugby shirt1902 bush shirt1909 tunic shirt1918 safari shirt1921 button-down1924 thousand-miler1929 aloha shirt1936 buba1937 zoot shirt1942 Hawaiian shirt1955 sweater-shirt1964 beach shirt1966 kimono shirt1968 dashiki1969 1909 M. S. Kisch Let. Nigeria (1910) xii. 169 This is the kind of costume I go about in; a bush shirt..and long native-made boots. 1953 D. Lessing Five iii. 144 Now he strode fast over the ground, his loose bush-shirt flying around him. bush-shrike n. the English name of the Thamnophilinæ, a sub-family of the Shrikes; any of various birds belonging to the African subfamily Malaconotinæ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > genus Malacnotus (bush-shrike) brubru1829 bokmakierie1834 bush-shrike1893 kokkewiet1896 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 21 The large genus Thamnophilus, containing upwards of 50 species, is one of the most important of the so-called ‘Bush-Shrikes’. 1932 Discovery Jan. 25/2 A wonderful new black-breasted bush-shrike..an entirely new species..christened Chlorophoneus nigrescens. 1953 R. Campbell Mamba's Precipice iv. 40 A pretty bush-robin came out..followed by a lovely bush-shrike with a bright green back, a yellow stomach, and a brilliant crimson chest. bush-sickness n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > lack of minerals in bush-sickness1929 1929 Times 1 July 15/6 Lack of minerals in pastures causes innumerable diseases, such as..‘bush-sickness’..in New Zealand. 1929 Times 1 July 16/2 Able to..identify ‘Nakuruitis’ as similar to ‘bush-sickness’ in New Zealand. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 67/3 As a result of research in both New Zealand and Australia, the cause of bush sickness was found in 1935 to be a deficiency of cobalt. bush-sick adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [adjective] > pasture > poor or overgrazed bare-eaten1577 sheep-sick1895 overgrazed1921 bush-sick1950 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 31/1 The amount of cobaltised fertiliser used..in 1949..would be sufficient to correct cobalt deficiency in 940,000 acres of bush-sick pasture. bush-sparrow n. an American name for a kind of sparrow (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Spizella > other types of tree sparrow1831 bush-sparrow1869 1869 J. Burroughs in Galaxy Mag. Aug. 173 A favourite sparrow of my own..is the wood, or bush-sparrow, usually called spizella pusilla. bush-spider n. a large spider of South America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > large bush-spider1796 barking spider1934 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xx. 93 A bush-spider of such magnitude, that putting him into a case-bottle above eight inches high, he..reached the surface with some of his hideous claws. bush-syrup n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > other syrups hydrosacrec1400 succadoc1530 honey roset1558 tree-honey1626 treacle1694 capillaire1754 dibs1757 syrup of capillaire1785 arrope1851 glucose1852 bush-syrup1866 palm-honey1866 moskonfyt1872 grenadine1896 pyromel1899 corn syrup1903 butterscotch1910 rose hip syrup1942 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. (at cited word) Bush Syrup, a saccharine fluid obtained from the flowers of Protea mellifera, in the Cape Colony. bush tea n. tea made from the leaves of certain shrubs, esp. those of species of Cyclopia, Borbonia, etc., dried and used medicinally in South Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun] > tea made in bush or outdoors bush tea1768 quart-pot tea1854 switchel1897 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > decoction or infusion > [noun] > specific decoction or infusion sabras?c1225 tisanea1398 tamarisk1597 wort1694 sage tea?1706 poppy tea1709 yapon tea1723 herb-tea1744 spring juices1751 balm-tea1752 camomile-tea1753 uva ursi1753 nettle tea1758 bush tea1768 quassia1778 majo bitters1866 Mexican tea1866 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > expectorant expectorant1633 expectorator1657 expectorative1662 bush tea1768 1768 in G. F. Dow Holyoke Diaries (1911) 30 Began to take Bush Tea. 1838 J. E. Alexander Exped. Discov. Interior Afr. I. 141 He regaled Mr. Schmelen and myself on boiled salt beef and bush tea. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Bush Tea, the leaflets of a species of Cyclopia, probably C. latifolia,..supposed to possess expectorant and restorative properties. 1902 ‘X. C.’ Everyday Life in Cape Colony ix. 122 In most of these Colonial stores ‘bush’ tea can be bought. 1946 Cape Argus 27 Feb. 6/9 In the country districts bushtea has many names—honey tea, boer tea, rooibos and so on. bush telegraph n. originally Australian bush-rangers' confederates who disseminated information as to the movements of the police; transferred, rapid spreading of information, or of a rumour, etc.; the ‘grapevine’. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > route by which rumour is passed grapevinea1867 bush telegraph1878 moccasin telegram1908 moccasin telegraph1909 1878 Australian 1 507 The police are baffled by..the number and activity of the bush telegraphs. 1893 K. Mackay Out Back v A hint dropped in this town set the bush telegraphs riding in all directions. 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Nov. 21/1 The bush telegraph sends tidings to and fro. 1946 U. Krige Way Out x. 121 We had heard too many ‘latrinograms’ now to be unduly impressed by the particular form of bush-telegraph..practised by the Italian peasants. 1951 ‘N. Shute’ Round Bend 208 ‘How did the Imam get to know about it?’.. ‘The bush telegraph works very well, here in Bahrein.’ 1954 L. P. Hartley White Wand i. 12 ‘How did he know that I was here?’ I asked—a silly question from someone who knew the workings of the Venetian bush-telegraph as well as I did. bush-tick n. (see quot. 1886). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Acari or family Acaridae > member of (tick) > family Ixodidae > member of genus Ixodes ricinus1658 bush-tick1856 wolf-tick1861 carrapato1886 scrub tick1891 1856 C. J. Andersson Lake Ngami ii. 20 Besides myriads of fleas, our encampment swarmed with a species of bush-tick. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 July 4/1 The carrapato, or bush-tick..is a degenerate spider. bush-tick berry n. South African the fruit of Osteospermum moniliferum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > bone-seed plant or fruit boneseed1811 bush-tick berry1865 1865 W. H. Harvey & O. W. Sonder Flora Capensis III. 436 A large bush..the Colonial name is Bush-tick Berry. bush-tit n. a bird of the genus Psaltriparus (Cent. Dict. 1889). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Aegithalidae > genus Psaltriparus (bush-tit) bush-titmouse1881 bush-tit1893 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 83 Chamæa... ‘Bush-Tit’ and ‘Ground-Wren’. bush-titmouse n. U.S. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Aegithalidae > genus Psaltriparus (bush-tit) bush-titmouse1881 bush-tit1893 1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 213 That diminutive little bird, the least bush titmouse (Psaltriparus minimus). bush-track n. = bush road n. ΚΠ 1864 Reader 2 Apr. 420/1 The roads from the nascent metropolis still partook mainly of the random character of ‘bush tracks’. † bush-tree n. Obsolete the Box ( Buxus sempervirens). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > box-tree or shrub > [noun] box treeOE boxOE busshe1430 dwarf box1578 ground-box1578 bush-tree1595 boxwood1652 tree-box1731 1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Buxus, the bush tree. 1599 J. Welsh in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 127 A litle way off was a great high bush-tree as though it had no leaues. bush vetch n. Vicia sepium. ΚΠ 1785 Lett. & Papers Agric., Planting (1786) III. viii. 75 At the time when the bush vetch blossoms, the female bruchus lays her egg within the blossom. 1891 A. Pratt Flowering Plants Great Brit. I. 177 A patch of the Bush Vetch, sown in a garden, has been cut five times in the course of the second year. 1966 G. E. Fussell Eng. Dairy Farmer ii. 109 The old grazing pastures of Durham were mainly composed of cocksfoot, ryegrass, dogstail,..red and white clover, yarrow and bush vetch. bush-warbler n. any of several genera of warblers belonging to the family Sylviidæ, found in Asia, Australasia, and Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Acanthizinae > genus Gerygone warbler1790 rainbird1817 riroriro1835 fly-eater1895 bush-warbler1898 bush canary1904 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Gerygone... In New Zealand they are called Bush-warblers. bush-water n. rain water that collects in the low-lying parts of tropical forests. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > still or standing water > [noun] > in tropical forests bush-water1808 1808 Ann. Reg. 1806 (Otridge ed.) Characters 856/1 Some were cutting wood for firing—some collecting the bush-water with a calabash. 1871 E. Jenkins Coolie ix. 120 That strange ebonised ‘bush-water’, which..anon curls and eddies round us like the smiles on a Negro's face. 1891 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Feb. 383 The plantations..were surrounded by four dams or embankments;..one behind to exclude the ‘bush water’, the accumulated rain of the interior. bush willow n. in South Africa, a plant of either of the species Combretum erythrophyllum or C. salicifolium. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > African trees or shrubs > [noun] > other African trees or shrubs keurboom1731 silver-tree1731 witteboom1799 Hottentot's bean1801 melkhouta1823 monkey apple1824 witgatboom1824 Hottentot's bean tree1833 spek-boom1834 mopane1854 Welwitschia1862 ambatch1863 miombo1864 pith tree1864 porkwood1875 tree purslane1882 buffalo-horn1887 monkey guava1887 bush willow1917 melkboom1917 msasa1923 rooibos1932 miraa1945 ovangkol1972 pigeon wood1972 tambotie1973 1917 R. Marloth Flora S. Afr.: Dict. Common Names 89 The so-called ‘Bushveld [Willow]’ or ‘Bush [Willow]’ is Combretum salicifolium. bushwoman n. a woman living in the Australian or African bush. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of > woman or girl bush-girl1822 bushwoman1863 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > countries or regions > woman bushwoman1863 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 484 The human brain here given..is that of an African bushwoman. 1874 W. M. Baines Narr. E. Crewe viii. 192 The white bushwoman—creatures of a mature age, hideous to look upon. 1905 Daily Chron. 16 Dec. 4/7 Bushmen and bushwomen within a radius of forty or fifty miles ride to these functions. bush-wood n. underwood, brushwood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood ronea1300 underwooda1325 rammel1338 brushetc1380 scroga1400 bushailec1400 frithing1429 brushal1430 brushc1440 ronec1440 thevec1440 garsil1483 shroga1500 cablish1594 south-bois1598 undergrowth1600 frith1605 hand timber1664 subbois1664 urith1671 brushwood1732 bush-wood1771 underbrush1775 slop1784 woodiness1796 scrub1805 shag1836 chaparral1845 underbush1849 underscrub1870 sand-brush1871 buck-brush1874 bush1879 horizontal scrub1888 tangle-wood1894 shin-tangle1905 1771 W. Wales in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 119 It is entirely covered with low bush-wood. 2010 Independent 17 July (Mag.) 25/1 The rough rectangle of land is perhaps 20 metres by 20, portioned off behind bush-wood fences. bush-worm n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > unspecified breezea1300 drumblec1350 gagrill14.. bug1594 bud-cutter1693 butter-cutter1704 cane-fly1750 whistle-insect1760 bush-worm1796 gogga1909 nunu1913 minibeast1973 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxiii. 183 I had now extracted out of my right arm two dreadful insects..These are called in Surinam the bush-worms, and are the shape and size of the aurelia of the common butterfly, with a pointed tail and black head. bush-wren n. the New Zealand name for a bird of the species Xenicus longipes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Acanthisittidae (rock wren) New Zealand wren1861 rifleman1871 bush-wren1887 rock wren1966 1887 W. L. Buller Birds N.Z. (ed. 2) I. 115 Bush-wren [Xenicus longipes]..is generally met with singly or in pairs. Draft additions 1993 bush league n. Baseball a minor league, esp. one of mediocre quality; frequently transferred and attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of secondary importance by1632 secondary1796 subfunctional1892 bush league1906 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [adjective] > league big league1881 bush league1906 major league1906 little league1939 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of secondary importance handmaidena1425 handmaid1533 anise1741 first (second) chop1823 secondary1841 footnote1858 bush league1928 1906 [see bush leaguer n. at Additions]. 1908 Baseball Mag. July 79/2 Being from Chicago, that bush league town wasn't good enough to hold Hermaine's sandals. 1914 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 8 Bush league trick, a trick indulged in which is not in harmony with its surroundings. 1928 D. Parker in New Yorker 12 May 20/2 Well, well, well, to think of me having real Scotch; I'm out of the bush leagues at last. 1949 A. Hynd We are Public Enemies iv. 108 He was..a bushleague Chicago gambler. 1955 Sci. Amer. Sept. 188/2 This is a first-class piece of ratiocination and scientific detection which makes the efforts of highly touted police and crime laboratories seem bush-league stuff. 1973 Hockey Digest Apr. 8/2 What does Hockey Digest think of the WHA and how long will it last? I think it is a bush league. 1986 N.Y. Post 9 July 57/3 This is an example of poor sportsmanship... It is international bush league. Draft additions 1993 bush leaguer n. one who plays in a minor league; also transferred, small timer. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance nekardc1450 man of clouts, king of clouts1467 dandiprat1556 Tom Thumb1579 minim1590 pygmy?1592 titmouse1596 gnatling1614 rye straw1615 nazzard1619 whisk1629 whifling1640 snifty1660 whippersnapper1674 nick-ninny1699 little me1711 squita1825 lightweight1831 lay figure1835 whiffet1839 pinkeen1850 huckleberry1868 bush leaguer1906 knibloch1915 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball player > [noun] > player in a minor league minor leaguer1897 bush leaguer1906 1906 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 10 Feb. 4/4 Consider the bush leaguer on the bench! He toils not neither does he spin; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 1943 S. Lewis G. Planish xxv. 301 He peeped into every new organization to promote religion—and there were perhaps six new ones a week in New York City—because these bush-leaguers might have some new ideas. 1975 S. Bellow Humboldt's Gift (1976) 180 I don't care who she is and what she knows, compared to Polly she's a bush leaguer. Draft additions December 2005 bushmeat n. (as a mass noun) wild animals hunted for food, esp. in Africa; the meat from these animals. ΚΠ 1842 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 13 15 This might have been accounted for by the practice of the natives, who set fire to the grass in the dry season for the purpose of catching wild animals, which they call ‘bush-meat’. 1966 U. Beier tr. O. Ijimere Imprisonment of Obatala 91 You will not leave my house without eating. And we have bushmeat today! 2004 Farang May 14/1 The two men are tense, despite the fact that hunting for bush-meat—wild mammals and birds—has been a lifelong occupation and necessity. Draft additions December 2012 bush cricket n. a cricket that frequents bushes; (in later use) spec. any of numerous orthopterans constituting the family Tettigoniidae, which resemble grasshoppers but have long antennae, stridulate using their wings, and are often nocturnal and predatory; also called long-horned grasshopper, (North American) katydid. ΚΠ 1845 R. Howitt Impressions Austral. Felix 74 Multitudinous was the clatter and whirl of bush-crickets. 1909 H. Maxwell-Lefroy Indian Insect Life 103 The small bush crickets are to some extent predaceous on small insects. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses viii. 161 Crickets are variously known as mole-crickets (burrowers in the ground), bush-crickets, tree-crickets.., and field crickets. 1974 W. Condry Woodlands iv. 57 The oak bush-cricket (Meconema thalassinum) [is] the only British grasshopper or cricket which lives in trees. 2006 Guardian 28 Mar. ii. 11/2 The wart-biter bush-cricket is just managing to cling on in five widely separated populations..in southern Britain. Draft additions December 2012 bush elephant n. the savannah elephant, Loxodonta africana africana. ΚΠ 1899 Agric. Jrnl. (Dept. Agric. Cape Good Hope) 19 Jan. 93 The Addo Bush elephant..presents such marked differences from the Central African elephant that it will have to be regarded as a distinct species.] 1922 Jrnl. Royal Afr. Soc. 21 93 It would seem probable that the big bush elephant most nearly represents the ancestral stock, whether indigenous or introduced. 1958 R. Garnett tr. B. Heuvelmans On Track of Unknown Animals xvi. 361 A male bush elephant often stands more than 11 feet high. 2011 Vanity Fair Aug. 134/2 Forest elephants..generally have smaller ears and shorter, harder, straighter, more orange tusks than the savanna or bush elephants. Draft additions June 2015 bush tucker n. colloquial (originally Australian) food, typically uncooked, from plants and animals native to the Australian outback; cf. tucker n.¹ 5b. ΚΠ 1885 Eastern Districts Chron. (York, W. Austral.) 13 June 3/1 Wattle Birds and Squeakers have now become extinct, owing to the prevailing hard times, and the necessity..for man to subsist entirely upon bush ‘tucker’. 1930 Dubbo Liberal & Macquarie Advocate (New S. Wales) 21 Mar. 8/2 His party rallied him on being a poor traveller unable to enjoy bush tucker. 1996 J. M. Jacobs Edge of Empire vi. 134 Visitors might..sit down to an Aboriginal-inspired ‘bush tucker’ meal..or browse amongst the ‘high quality’ artefacts available for purchase. 2014 Wiltshire Times (Nexis) 27 July (News section) One of the most popular activities was the bush tucker trials, which tasked challengers with eating witchetty grubs and crickets. Draft additions September 2020 bush lot n. chiefly Canadian a plot of wooded or uncleared land, esp. on a farm. ΚΠ 1832 13th Ann. Rep. N.-Y. Inst. for Instr. Deaf & Dumb 1831 3 The clearing, draining, and fencing, of a neighboring field, termed the Bush-lot. 1858 Canad. Merchant's Mag. 554 To induce emigrants to settle amongst us something more requires to be done, than to give them a bush lot in some back settlement. 2019 Almaguin (Ont.) News (Nexis) 14 Nov. (Final ed.) 1 We did see a very nice 10-point buck strolling across a big, open field, heading in the direction of a bush lot. bush party n. chiefly Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian an outdoor party in a wooded area or other remote location, typically held by young people and often involving heavy drinking. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > other parties play-party1796 tail1837 surprise-party1840 street party1845 costume party1850 pound party1869 all-nighter1870 neighbourhood party1870 simcha1874 ceilidh1875 studio party1875 pounding1883 house party1885 private function1888 shower1893 kitchen shower1896 kitchen evening1902 bottle party1903 pyjama party1910 block party1919 house party1923 after-party1943 slumber party1949 office party1950 freeload1952 hukilau1954 BYOB1959 pot party1959 bush party1962 BYO1965 wrap party1978 bop1982 warehouse party1988 rave1989 1962 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 328 2113/2 Many stories are told over there about the bush parties to which the men go... Young people [should] keep away from beer parties of that nature. 2018 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 7 Mar. a4 Most [kids] went to at least one bush party that ended with police cars swooping in and teenagers scattering into the night. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022). bushn.³ Brit. /bʊʃ/, U.S. /bʊʃ/ Etymology: apparently < Middle Dutch busse, (modern Dutch bus ) Box, bush of a wheel; compare German büchse , radbüchse , Swedish hjul-bössa ‘wheel-bush’. Compare, for the form, early forms of blunderbuss n., arquebus n., in -bush . As to connection with bouche n.², see bush v.³ 1. The metal lining of the axle-hole of a wheel; hence, the metal (or wooden) case in which the journal of a shaft revolves. (Cf. box n.² 7.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > parts of > journal > part which encloses or supports bushel1433 bush1566 plummer block1796 box1825 housing1829 journal-box1864 strap-head1864 1566 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories (1815) 169 Item, fyve buscheis of found for cannonis and batterd quheillis. 1578 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories (1815) 250 Garnist with yron werk and bousches of fonte. 1625 Inventory in Shropshire Word-bk. (E.D.S.) One paire of bushes..one paire of bushes soles. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. viii. 332 The Busshes are Irons within the hole of the Nave to keep it from wearing. 1770 J. Ferguson Lect. (1805) I. 82 The upper part of the spindle turns in a wooden bush fixt into the nether millstone. 1799 A. Cumming Observ. Effects Carriage Wheels (new ed.) 17 The nave is commonly lined with metal, which lining is called the box or bush. 2. A cylindrical metal lining of an orifice; a perforated plug, cylinder, or disk; esp. a drilled plug inserted in the touch-hole of a gun, or in a bearing of a watch when worn (cf. bouche n.²). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > washer or liner washer1346 gasket1828 babbitting1851 bush1865 hat leather1869 liner1886 space washer1934 O-ring1954 1865 Ld. Elcho in Times 9 Mar. What are ordinarily known as front aperture sights, i.e. solid discs or bushes pierced in the centre. 1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 143 The hole is tapped at one end to receive a bush. Compounds bush-metal n. an alloy of copper and tin used for journals (journal n. 10). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bushv.¹ Brit. /bʊʃ/, U.S. /bʊʃ/ Forms: For forms see bush n.¹ Etymology: < bush n.¹ †1. transitive. To set in a bush or thicket as a place of concealment, to place in ambush; intransitive (for reflexive) to hide in a bush, lie in ambush. (Cf. bush n.¹ 4) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make attack [verb (intransitive)] > lie in wait siteOE wait?c1225 aspya1250 awaita1250 keepc1275 to sit in wait(s)a1300 lurkc1300 bush1330 to lie at (the) waitc1440 to lie on waitc1440 to lie wait1445 lay one's wait1535 hugger1567 to lie at (on, upon the) lurch1578 couch1582 ambuscade1592 to lie (also stand, stay, etc.) perdu1624 to lie at (or upon the) snap1631 ambush1638 to hole up1912 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > lie in wait for > set in ambush bush1330 embusk1596 perdue1656 1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 187 Saladyn priuely was bussed beside þe flom. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 4647 Saladyn priuely was bussed beside þe flom. c1440 York Myst. xiii. 8 I may nowder buske ne belde But owther in frith or felde. 1520 Chron. Eng. ii. f. 11 Coryn sholde go out and busshe hym in a wode. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 263 The Pechtis than wes buschit neir hand by. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1168 Lurkyt vnder lefe~sals loget with vines, Busket vndur bankes on bourders with-oute. 1623 S. Daniel Hymens Triumph ii. i Being closely bush'd a pretty Distance off. 2. To protect (trees, etc.) with bushes or cut brushwood set round about; to support with bushes. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > protect trees bush1647 1647 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) Paid for bushes to bush the ashes in the meadowe vjd. 1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 33 Care must be taken to Bush them, so that Cattle may not rub against them. 1736 Compl. Family-piece iii. 344 Let the Setts be bushed about for some Time to prevent their being injured. 1884 Illustr. London News 29 Nov. 539 It matters but little what the fence may be—a bushed or unbushed one. 3. To protect (land or game) from net-poachers by placing bushes or branches at intervals in the preserved ground, so as to interrupt the sweep of a net. Also absol. ΚΠ 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xiii. 288 Assist us still better to bush the partridges. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. viii. 398 Game-preserving Aristocracies, let them ‘bush’ never so effectually, cannot escape the Subtle Fowler. 1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 274 As for netting by night, bush your fields closely. 1883 J. Purves in Contemp. Rev. Sept. 355 They know the fields to avoid for net-work, those that have been bushed—i.e. irregularly dotted with posts driven upright into the ground. 4. To bush-harrow (ground, etc.); to cover in (seed) with a bush-harrow. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > harrow harrow1377 to-harrow1393 draga1722 ox-harrow1778 bush1787 bush-harrow1788 brake1800 chip1802 crab-harrow1844 tine1854 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 313 Sow the clover seed, which bush in, by the horses walking in the furrows. 1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 i. 10 By attention to the spreading and bushing the field the whole surface becomes..changed. 5. See quot. 1838; cf. bush-draining n. at bush n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1838 New Monthly Mag. 53 32 They might hae thocht of bushing the tent-pegs..This is done, on the approach of heavy rain, by digging a hole near each tent-peg, and filling it with brushwood, to act as a sort of drain and prevent the water from saturating the ground, and making the pegs draw. 6. To tether a horse by burying the knotted end of the head-rope in the ground. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > tether renewc1450 tether1483 stake1544 picket1729 headline1800 flit1816 hang1835 to rack up1843 bail1846 to hang up1858 bush1871 manger1905 1871 Daily News 11 Sept. The system of ‘bushing’, by which the officers' horses of the 9th Lancers are now fastened. 7. a. intransitive. To be bushy, to grow thick like a bush. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > grow in a specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > be bushy bush1562 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 133 It [wilde Thyme] busheth largely, and groweth somthyng asyde. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 426 So thick the Roses bushing round About her glowd. View more context for this quotation 1809 J. Parkins Culpepper's Eng. Physician Enlarged 257 Greyish or whitish leaves..many bushing together at a joint. b. transferred of hair. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [verb (intransitive)] > thick bush1509 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clxviii Theyr here out busshynge as a foxis tayle. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Cii^v My heyre bussheth, so plesauntly. 1575 G. Turberville tr. F. S. Vicentino Treat. Cure Spanels in Bk. Faulconrie 369 The Dogge becommes more beautifull by cutting the toppe of his sterne: for then will it bushe out verie gallantly. †c. of the ‘tail’ of a comet. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > expand or enlarge [verb (intransitive)] > fluff out or up bush1587 fluff1875 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1314/1 There appeared a blasing star in the south, bushing toward the east. †8. to bush about or out: ? to beat or hunt about for (as for game). Cf. busk v.⁴ 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] seekc1000 ofsechec1300 searchc1330 laita1400 ripea1400 to cast about1575 to fall about1632 quest1669 to bush about or out1686 beat1709 to cast about one1823 feather1892 1686 MS. Let. from Job Charnock & Council of Húgli to Council at Balasore 3 June Wee take notice that you can Procure us about 20^mds[maunds] of Wax, pray bushe out for some more. a1734 R. North Life F. North (1742) 201 They are forced to bush about for ways and means to pay their rent and charges. †9. To camp in the bush. Usually with it. Australian and New Zealand. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > camp or encamp [verb (intransitive)] > in bush bush1827 1827 W. J. Dumaresq Let. in G. Mackaness Fourteen Journeys (1950–1) 99 Not being provided for bushing it, in these early frosts, we made up our minds to return. 1846 N.Z. Jrnl. 6 166/1 I passed the night under a pine~tree..and awoke, after my first experience of ‘bushing it’, exceedingly refreshed. 1853 E. Clacy Lady's Visit Gold Diggings Austral. 245 If this fails, you must just bush it for the night. 1862 J. Goldie Jrnl. 5 May in H. Beattie Pioneers explore Otago (1947) 98 I resolved to scramble along the side of the lake..even although we had to ‘bush it’ for a night or two. 1868 People's Mag. II. 365/2 I have ‘bushed’ it many a rough night in Australia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † bushv.² Forms: Middle English busche, Middle English bussh(e, Middle English boyssh(e, 1500s bush. Etymology: Derivation uncertain: compare Old French buschier ‘frapper, heurter’, Middle Dutch buusschen (= Middle High German biuschen ) to knock, beat; also push n.² Obsolete exc. dialect. intransitive. To butt with the head; to push. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the head busha1387 butt1590 head1784 browbeat1830 puck1861 headbutt1934 nut1937 headbang1984 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 191 He may busche aȝenst men and horshedes and breke strong dores wiþ his heed. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. iii. 1112 Þe ram is excited and bussheþ ful strongliche. 1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 33 If he bush not at beautie. ?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) l. 216 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 243 Then full boldlie on the brode hills we bushed with [emended in ed. to busked] our standarts. 1864 E. Capern Devon Provincialism To Bush, to butt or strike with the head. 1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. S. Pembrokeshire Bush, to thrust with the horns, to butt. Derivatives ˈbushing n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the head bushing1398 butting1598 butt1826 headbutt1925 Liverpool kiss1944 nutting1963 Glasgow kiss1982 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. lix. 273 A postume comyth..of brekynge and brusinge and boysshynge and hurtelynge. 1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles i. 99 Þey made ȝou to leue þat regne ȝe ne myȝte, Withoute busshinge adoune of all ȝoure best ffrendis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bushv.³ Brit. /bʊʃ/, U.S. /bʊʃ/ Etymology: < bush n.³; originally said of wheels; with the extension of the word to the vent of muskets, etc., it subsequently appears to have been associated with French bouche mouth, boucher to stop up (see bush v.⁴), or bouchon cork, plug; whence the frequent later bouche v. 1. transitive. To furnish with a bush; to line (an orifice) with metal. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > coat or cover with metal couch14.. platec1425 bush1566 gild1611 sheathe1615 water1637 tincture1670 laminate1697 wash1792 replate1796 rebush1864 electro1891 metallize1911 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > furnish with a shaft [verb (transitive)] > parts of bush1566 journal1875 spline1891 1566 Inventory 168 (Jam.) Item, ane pair of new cannone quheillis buschit with brass. 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 233 [He] Bushes the Naves, clouts th' Axle-trees. 1782 B. Thompson in Philos. Trans. 1781 (Royal Soc.) 71 264 The vent of a musket is very soon enlarged by firing, and..it is found necessary to stop it up with a solid screw, through the center of which a new vent is made of the proper dimensions. This operation is called bushing, or rather bouching the piece. 1882 Field 16 Sept. 410 A 12-gauge gun that I had bushed on my system. 2. transferred. ΚΠ 1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. vi. 69 The front pin is bushed by two or three thicknesses of baize..to avoid rattling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † bushv.⁴ Etymology: < French boucher to shut an aperture; of doubtful derivation: see Littré. Obsolete. To stop a hole, opening, or passage. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close an aperture or orifice ditc1000 shut1362 steekc1380 stopc1400 quirt1532 to close up1542 to fill up1598 unspar1611 caulk1616 cork1650 busha1659 instop1667 close1697 a1659 F. Osborne Observ. Turks (1673) 315 Eyeing Christians with a high disdain, for..bushing the way to Heaven with Purgatory and other Bugbears. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. ix. 74 If..all the holes in the world be not shut up, stopped, closed, and bushed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹c1315n.³1566v.¹1330v.²a1387v.³1566v.⁴a1659
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