Bush

See also: bush

English

Bush Village Hall, Illinois

Etymology

Either the family name for those who live near a bush or a thicket of bushes, or the family name for those living at or near a bush (in the archaic sense of wine merchant or tavern).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊʃ/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /bʉʃ/
• Homophone: bush
• Rhymes: -ʊʃ

Proper noun

Bush (countable and uncountable, plural Bushes)

1. A surname from Middle English.
   • 2019 March 8, Allen Kim, “What you don’t know about the Bush family dynasty”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In March 1953, a month after Jeb was born, the Bush family received the devastating news that Robin had leukemia. A local doctor told the Bushes that doctors had never seen a white blood cell count that high and there was nothing they could do for her.

   • 2023 August 18, Francesca Street, “Her flight was canceled. Then she ended up on the doorstep of her future wife”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     When Larissa Santos opened her front door and saw Rachel Bush for the first time, she was immediately flooded with emotions.

   1. George H. W. Bush, 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993

      Synonyms: Bush 41, Poppy

   2. George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009

      Synonyms: Bush 43, Bushinator, Bushitler, Chimperor, Chimpy, Chimpy McFlightsuit, Chimpy McHalliburton, Chimpy McHitlerburton, Dubya, GW, GWB, Shrub, Shrubya

      • 2000 August 24, William Safire, “Essay; Pardon Me, But . . .”, in The New York Times‎^[3], archived from the original on 3 February 2018:

        This means Gore will have to stop dancing away from the question as if the pardon decision were somehow shared with the pardonee. It's time he chose the hard right over the easy wrong answer. (For Bush, it would be an opportunity to demonstrate nonpartisan compassion on a grand scale.)

2. A place name:
   1. A village in Williamson County, Illinois, United States; from the surname.
   2. An unincorporated community in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.
   3. An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States; from the surname.
   4. A hamlet in Bude-Stratton parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SS2307).
   5. A hamlet in southern Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO7665).

Derived terms

• Bush 41
• Bush 43
• Bushbama
• Bushian
• Bushie
• Bushinator
• Bushism
• Bushist
• Bushite
• Bushitler
• Bushlicker
• Bushonomics
• Bushtard
• GW
• GWB

Translations

surname

• Arabic: بُوش (būš)
• Armenian: Բուշ (Buš)
• Azerbaijani: Buş
• Belarusian: Буш (Buš)
• Bulgarian: Буш m or f (Buš)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 布殊 (bou³ syu⁴) (Hong Kong)

  Mandarin: 布什 (zh) (Bùshí), 布希 (zh) (Bùxī) (Taiwan)

• French: Bush (fr)
• Georgian: ბუში (buši)
• Greek: Μπους (el) (Bous)
• Hebrew: בוש (bush)
• Hindi: बुश (buś)
• Italian: Bush m or f
• Japanese: ブッシュ (ja) (Busshu)
• Korean: 부시 (ko) (Busi)
• Latvian: Bušs
• Macedonian: Буш (Buš)
• Old Church Slavonic: Боушъ (Bušŭ)
• Persian: بوش (fa) (buš)
• Portuguese: Bush m or f
• Russian: Буш (ru) (Buš)
• Serbo-Croatian: Буш m
• Thai: บุช (bùch)
• Ukrainian: Буш (Buš)
• Urdu: بش (buś)
• Vietnamese: Bu-sơ

Anagrams

• hubs, husb., Shub

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Bush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuʃ/^*
• Rhymes: -uʃ

Proper noun

Bush ?

1. a surname in English