bush-fightern.

/ˈbʊʃˌfʌɪtə/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bush n.¹, fighter n.

Etymology: < bush n.¹ + fighter n. Compare bush-fighting n.

An irregular combatant or skirmisher, accustomed to fight in the bush; one who fires from among the bushes.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > guerrilla > [noun]

statizer1616

privateer1676

partisan1692

bush-fighter1760

guerrilla1809

guerrillero1832

filibuster1861

mujahid1885

urban guerrilla1946

1760 J. Wesley Jrnl. 22 Nov. (1827) III. 27 If it should happen, that any one of these silly bush-fighters steps out into the plain.

1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 343 Cornwallis and Burgoyne had been over-reached by the despicable bush-fighters opposed to them.

1857 Mayne Reid in Chambers's Jrnl. 7 363 Not so much with the eye of a soldier, as with that of a hunter and bush-fighter.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	bush-fighter
释义	bush-fightern. /ˈbʊʃˌfʌɪtə/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bush n.¹, fighter n. Etymology: < bush n.¹ + fighter n. Compare bush-fighting n. An irregular combatant or skirmisher, accustomed to fight in the bush; one who fires from among the bushes. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > guerrilla > [noun] statizer1616 privateer1676 partisan1692 bush-fighter1760 guerrilla1809 guerrillero1832 filibuster1861 mujahid1885 urban guerrilla1946 1760 J. Wesley Jrnl. 22 Nov. (1827) III. 27 If it should happen, that any one of these silly bush-fighters steps out into the plain. 1825 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 17 343 Cornwallis and Burgoyne had been over-reached by the despicable bush-fighters opposed to them. 1857 Mayne Reid in Chambers's Jrnl. 7 363 Not so much with the eye of a soldier, as with that of a hunter and bush-fighter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1760
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