bush

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English [edit]

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Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English busch, busshe, from Old English busc, bysc (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian bosk (“woods”), Dutch bos (“woods”), German Busch (“bush”), Danish busk (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, French bois and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic. The sense 'pubic hair' was first attested in 1745.

Noun [edit]

bush (plural bushes)

A bush [1] (shrub).
  1. (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
  2. (slang) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's; loosely, a woman's vulva.
    • 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs Of Fanny Hill, Gutenberg eBook #25305,
      As he stood on one side, unbuttoning his waistcoat and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greasy landscape lay fairly open to my view; a wide open mouthed gap, overshaded with a grizzly bush, seemed held out like a beggar′s wallet for its provision.
    • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 787:
      But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush.
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Terms derived from "bush"
Translations [edit]
category of woody plant
pubic hair

Verb [edit]

bush (third-person singular simple present bushes, present participle bushing, simple past and past participle bushed)

  1. (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
    • Alexander Pope
      The bushing alders.

Etymology 2 [edit]

From the sign of a bush usually employed to indicate such places.

Noun [edit]

bush (plural bushes)

  1. (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
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Etymology 3 [edit]

From Middle Dutch bosch (modern bos) ("wood, forest"), first appearing in the Dutch colonies to designate an uncleared district of a colony, and thence adopted in British colonies as bush.

Noun [edit]

bush (uncountable)

  1. (often with "the") Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.
    1. (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
    2. (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
    3. (Canada) The remote forested areas of Canada, excluding the high arctic barrens; the upcountry.
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Translations [edit]
Remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area

Adjective [edit]

bush (comparative bushier, superlative bushiest)

  1. The Australian use of the noun "bush", used attributively.
    The bush vote; bush tucker; bush aristocracy

Adverb [edit]

bush (not comparable)

  1. (Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
    On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.

Etymology 4 [edit]

Back-formation from bush league.

Adjective [edit]

bush (comparative more bush, superlative most bush)

  1. (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
    They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.

Noun [edit]

bush (plural bushes)

  1. (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
    The way that pitcher showed up the batter after the strikeout was bush.

Etymology 5 [edit]

From Middle Dutch busse 'box; wheel bushing', from Proto-Germanic *buhsiz (cf. English box). More at box.

Noun [edit]

bush (plural bushes)

  1. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal (also bushing).
  2. 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.

Verb [edit]

bush (third-person singular simple present bushes, present participle bushing, simple past and past participle bushed)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining.
    to bush a pivot hole

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Albanian [edit]

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Noun [edit]

bush m

  1. boxwood

Aromanian [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

Compare Daco-Romanian buș.

Noun [edit]

bush

  1. fist

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