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bush
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)
- (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.
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (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.
- (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.
- 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs Of Fanny Hill, Gutenberg eBook #25305,
- (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)
- (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.
- 1726, Homer, Alexander Pope (translator), The Odyssey, 1839, Samuel Johnson (editor), The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., page 404,
- To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
- to bush peas
- 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
- 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)
- (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)
- (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- (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.
- 1894, Henry Lawson, We Called Him “Ally” for Short, Short Stories in Prose and Verse, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607911,
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
- (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)
- (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)
- (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
- (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)
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- 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.
- 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)
- (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)
- (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)
- 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)
- fist
Synonyms
- shub, pulmu, huftã, mãnatã
Burushaski
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bu?]
Noun
bush (plural bushongo)
- 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)
- 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.
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hedgerow
English
Etymology
From Middle English heggerowe, heggerewe, heggerawe, from Old English *he??r?w, *he??r?w (attested only as Old English he?er?we, he?er?we (“hedgerow”)), equivalent to hedge +? row.
Noun
hedgerow (plural hedgerows)
- a row of closely planted bushes or trees forming a hedge
- 1971, Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
- If theres a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, it's just a spring clean for the may queen
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91
- He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
- 1971, Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
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