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bushie

English

Alternative forms

  • bushy

Etymology

From bush +? -ie.

Pronunciation

  • (General Australian, UK) IPA(key): /?b??i/

Noun

bushie (plural bushies)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) Someone who lives in or is familiar with the Australian outback; a bushman or bushwoman.
    • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 184:
      I bought the king parrot from an old bushie in a pub in Exhibition Street.
    • 1998, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage 2015, p. 179:
      Timber was a sign of poverty, of our poor-white condition and backwardness: it made ‘bushies’ of us.

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hick

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /h?k/
  • Homophone: hic
  • Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Hick (pet form of Richard).

Noun

hick (plural hicks)

  1. (derogatory) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person. [from early 18th c.]
Synonyms
  • boer, boor
  • country bumpkin
  • churl
  • hillbilly
  • lob
  • redneck
  • rustic
  • yokel
Translations

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

hick (third-person singular simple present hicks, present participle hicking, simple past and past participle hicked)

  1. to hiccup
Translations

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Luxembourgish

Verb

hick

  1. second-person singular imperative of hicken

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