bush
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From Old English bysc (“‘woody plant’”) via Middle English bushe (“‘woody plant’”), possibly conflated with cognates such as Danish busk, Old French busche (“‘firewood’”), and Medieval Anglo-Latin bosca (“‘firewood’”) (from Mediaeval Latin busca, in turn a loan from West Germanic *busk (“‘bush, thicket’”))
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bush (plural bushes)
- A horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant that is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height; usually less than 6m tall.
- (slang) The pubic hair, especially that of a woman; hence, vulva.
- compare bushy. First occurrence in 1745.
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- shrub
- See also Wikisaurus:pubic hair
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From the sign of a bush usually employed to indicate such places
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bush (plural bushes)
- (archaic): A tavern or wine merchant.
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From Middle Dutch bosch (modern bos) 'wood, forest', first appearing in the Dutch colonies as the word for an uncleared district of a colony, and thence in British colonies as bush.
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bush (uncountable)
- (Australian) The countryside area of Australia that is neither arid nor remote enough to constitute the outback, and may include areas of natural flora even within conurbations
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- (Canadian) The remote forested areas of Canada, excluding the high arctic barrens. The upcountry.
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- bushman (not derived from bush but separately derived from cognate Dutch)
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bush (comparative bushier, superlative bushiest)
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- The Australian use of the noun "bush", used attributively.
- The bush vote; bush tucker; bush aristocracy
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bush (not comparable)
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- (Australian) Towards the direction of the outback.
- On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
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Back-formation from bush league.
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bush (comparative more bush, superlative most bush)
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- (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
- They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.
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bush (plural bushes)
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
- The way that pitcher showed up the batter after the strikeout was bush.
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bush (plural bushes)
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal (also bushing).
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
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- IPA: /bʊʃ/
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bush m (pl., bushe)