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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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wort
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /w?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Etymology 1
From Middle English wort, wurt, wyrte (“plant”), from Old English wyrt (“herb, vegetable, plant, crop, root”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds. Doublet of root.
Noun
wort (plural worts)
- (archaic) A plant; herb; vegetable.
- he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hogg, or scraps like a dog […].
- 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]
- It is an excellent pleasure to be able to take pleasure in worts and water, in bread and onions, for then a man can never want pleasure when it is so ready for him, that nature hath spread it over all its provisions.
- Any of various plants or herbs, used in combination to refer to specific plants such as St. John's wort, or on its own as a generic term.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- List of wort plants on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English wort, worte (“brewing wort”), from Old English wyrt, wyrte (“brewing wort, new beer, spice”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtij? (“spice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr?h?d- (“sprout, root”).
Cognate with Dutch wort (“wort”), German Würze (“wort, seasoning, spice”), Danish urt (“beer wort”), Swedish vört (“beer wort”).
Noun
wort (uncountable)
- (brewing) Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer.
Translations
Further reading
- wort on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- ROTW, rowt, trow
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- wòrt, wört, wourd, wuart
Etymology
From Middle High German wort. Cognate with German Wort, Dutch woord, English word, Icelandic orð.
Noun
wort n
- (Formazza) word
References
- “wort” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch worte, from Old Dutch *wurta, from Proto-Germanic *wurtij?.
Pronunciation
Noun
wort n (uncountable)
- wort (unfermented beer)
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch wort
Noun
wort n or f
- word
- diction, what someone says or writes
- prescription, order
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
- w?ort
Descendants
- Dutch: woord
- Limburgish: waord, waordj
Further reading
- “wort”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “wort (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English wyrt (“plant, herb”), from Proto-Germanic *wr?ts (oblique stem *wurt-), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds. Doublet of rote (“root”).
Alternative forms
- worte, wurte, woort, wrt, wyrte, wert, wuyrte
Pronunciation
- (mainly Early ME) IPA(key): /?wirt/
- IPA(key): /?wurt/
Noun
wort (plural wortes or worten)
- A plant (not including trees, shrubs, etc.):
- A plant that is wild or not cultivated or harvested.
- A plant that harvested or grown; often as a herb or vegetable.
- A plant employed for supposed curative or medical properties.
- A leaf as part of a salad or other vegetable dish.
Usage notes
This term is often used in compounds.
Related terms
Descendants
- English: wort
References
- “w?rt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-22.
Etymology 2
From Old English wyrt, wyrte (“wort”), from Proto-Germanic *wurtij?.
Alternative forms
- wurte, worte, woort, wrt, wurt
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wurt/
Noun
wort (uncountable)
- Wort (as in brewing) or an analogous mixture (e.g. used for mead)
Descendants
- English: wort
- Scots: wort, wirt
References
- “w?rt, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-22.
Middle High German
Etymology
From Old High German wort.
The sense verb is a literal translation of Latin verbum.
Noun
wort n
- word
- (grammar) verb
- 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln. Normalised spellings: 1867, Karl Julis Schröer, Die Dichtungen Heinrichs von Mügeln (Mogelîn) nach den Handschriften besprochen, Wien, p. 476:
- Nam, vornam, wort, darnâch
- zûwort, teilfanc, zûfûg ich sach,
- vorsatz, înworf under irem dach
- gemunzet und geformet stân.
- 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln. Normalised spellings: 1867, Karl Julis Schröer, Die Dichtungen Heinrichs von Mügeln (Mogelîn) nach den Handschriften besprochen, Wien, p. 476:
Descendants
- Alemannic German:
- Alsatian: Wort
- Italian Walser: wort, wourd, wuart, wòrt, wört
- Swabian: Wort
- Bavarian: Wort
- Cimbrian: bóart, bort
- Mòcheno: bourt
- Udinese: boart, bort, bört
- Central Franconian: Woot, Wort
- Hunsrik: Wort
- German: Wort
- Luxembourgish: Wuert
- Vilamovian: wiüt
- Yiddish: ??????? (vort)
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *word
Noun
wort n
- word
Inflection
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: wort
- Dutch: woord
- Limburgish: waord, waordj
Further reading
- “wort”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *word, whence also Old Dutch wort, Old Saxon and Old English word, Old Norse orð, Gothic ???????????????????? (waurd).
The sense verb is a literal translation of Latin verbum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wort/
Noun
wort n
- word
- (grammar) verb
Declension
Descendants
- Middle High German: wort
- Alemannic German:
- Alsatian: Wort
- Italian Walser: wort, wourd, wuart, wòrt, wört
- Swabian: Wort
- Bavarian: Wort
- Cimbrian: bóart, bort
- Mòcheno: bourt
- Udinese: boart, bort, bört
- Central Franconian: Woot, Wort
- Hunsrik: Wort
- German: Wort
- Luxembourgish: Wuert
- Vilamovian: wiüt
- Yiddish: ??????? (vort)
- Alemannic German:
Scots
Alternative forms
- wirt
Etymology
From Middle English wort
Noun
wort (uncountable)
- (Middle Scots) wort
References
- “wort” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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