different between bush vs arbor

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English bush, from Old English bus?, *bys? (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to grow”).

Cognate with West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest”), German Busch (“bush”), Danish and Norwegian busk (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian ????? (biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, 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

bush (plural bushes)

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. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

3. (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
4. (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
   • 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.

5. (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Synonyms

• (category of woody plant): shrub
• See also Thesaurus:pubic hair

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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.
   • 1726, Homer, Alexander Pope (translator), The Odyssey, 1839, Samuel Johnson (editor), The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., page 404,

     Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene.

2. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

   to bush peas

3. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

   to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground

4. To become bushy (often used with up).

   I can tell when my cat is upset because he'll bush up his tail.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bush (plural bushes)

1. (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.

Derived terms

• good wine needs no bush

Etymology 3

From older 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. Could alternatively be interpreted as a semantic loan, as bush (etymology 1) is cognate to the aforementioned archaic Dutch bosch.

Noun

bush (countable and uncountable, plural bushes)

1. (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely 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.
      • 1894, Henry Lawson, We Called Him “Ally” for Short, Short Stories in Prose and Verse, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607911,

        I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in the bush between here and Perth.

      • 1899, Ethel C. Pedley, Dot and the Kangaroo, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0900681h,

        Little Dot had lost her way in the bush.

      • 2000, Robert Holden, Paul Cliff, Jack Bedson, The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood, page 16,

        The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.

   2. (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
   3. (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
2. (Canada) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.

Derived terms

Related terms

• bushman (not derived from bush but separately derived from cognate Dutch)

Translations

Descendants

• ? Dutch: bush, bushbush

See also

• backblock, outback

Adverb

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

Back-formation from bush league.

Adjective

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

bush

1. (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"

Etymology 5

From Middle Dutch busse (“box; wheel bushing”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhs?. More at box.

Noun

bush (plural bushes)

1. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
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.
3. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (washer or cylinder): bushing

Related terms

• reducing bush

Verb

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

Anagrams

• Shub, hubs

Albanian

Alternative forms

• bushk

Etymology 1

Either borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin buxus, or from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH (“to grow”) (compare Dutch bos (“woods”), English bush).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?/

Noun

bush m (indefinite plural bushe, definite singular bushi, definite plural bushet)

1. (botany) boxwood (Buxus sempervirens)

Derived terms

• bushtë
• bushnjesh
• bushk

Etymology 2

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH (“to grow”).

Noun

bush m (indefinite plural busha, definite singular bushi, definite plural bushat)

1. a mythological monster

Declension

Derived terms

• bushtër

Related terms

• bisht

References

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• bushu, bushtu

Etymology

Compare Romanian bu?.

Noun

bush m (plural bush) or n (plural bushi/bushe)

1. fist

Synonyms

• shub, pulmu, huftã, mãnatã

Burushaski

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bu?]

Noun

bush (plural bushongo)

1. cat

See also

• gus bush
• hir bush
• bushe isko

References

Sadaf Munshi (2015) , “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project?^[1].

Middle English

Alternative forms

• buss, bosh, buish, boish, busk, bosk

Etymology

From Old English busc, bysc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk. Cognates include Middle Dutch bosch, busch, Middle High German busch, bosch, and also Old French bois, buisson.

Noun

bush (plural bushes)

1. bush (low-lying plant)

Descendants

• English: bush
• Scots: bus
• Yola: bushe

References

• “bush, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)b?(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English arbour, erbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”) (English herb). (Compare Late Latin herb?rium, although erbier is possibly an independent formation.) The spelling was influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).

Alternative forms

• arbour (chiefly British)

Noun

arbor (plural arbors or arbores)

1. A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
2. A grove of trees.

Derived terms

• Ann Arbor

Related terms

• arboreal
• arboreous
• arborescent
• arboretum
• arbor vitae
• herb

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French arbre (“tree, axis”), spelling influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).

Noun

arbor (plural arbors or arbores)

1. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
2. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
3. A spindle of a wheel.

Translations

Anagrams

• Barro, borra

Latin

Alternative forms

• arb?s

Etymology

By rhotacism from Old Latin arb?s, from Proto-Italic *arð?s, cognate with arduus (“high”): the meaning is "high plant"; the Indo-European /d?/ was shifted to /b/. From the Proto-Indo-European *h?erd?- (“high, to grow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.bor/, [?ärb?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.bor/, [??rb?r]

Noun

arbor f (genitive arboris); third declension

1. a tree

   (specifically with the genitive of the species)

2. (metonymically) something made from a tree, of wood

   Synonym: m?lus

   Synonyms: iaculum, p?lum

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3. (metonymically) the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree)

Declension

• A poetic nominative arb?s is often found. Sextus Pompeius Festus documents archaic (Old Latin) variants arbosem, arboses.

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

See also

• p?mus
• silva

Noun

arbor

1. vocative singular of arbor

Further reading

• arbor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

References

• arbor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arbor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arbor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• arbor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *arawar, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erh?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar.v?r/

Noun

arbor n (genitive arbae, nominative plural arbann)

1. grain
2. (in the plural) crops

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: arbhar
• Manx: arroo
• Scottish Gaelic: arbhar

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “arbar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• arbol

Etymology

From Latin arbor, arborem, from Old Latin arb?s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?erd?- (“high, to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ar.?or]

Noun

arbor m (plural arbores)

1. tree
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v. b.

     ally delát ebró. es mót mãbre. e ouo y grát arbor. e fue enzina. ala rayz daq?l arbor estaua abraã.

     There, past Hebron, is the hill Mamre, where there was a great oak tree. Abraham was [sitting] on the root of that tree.

   • Idem, f. 42v. b.

     e crebantaredes todas cibdades en ca?telladas entodos los arbores fermo?os todas las fontanas del agua cerraredes. entodas las buenas se?as abatredes […]

     And you shall defeat all cities and fortified towns, and fell all the good trees, and seal all the springs of water and ruin all the good pieces of land.

Descendants

• Ladino: arvolé, arvol
• Spanish: árbol, árbor
  • ? Basque: arbola
  • ? Cebuano: arbol
  • ? Sicilian: àrbulu, àrvulu

Romanian

Noun

arbor m (plural arbori)

1. Alternative form of arbore