different between bushie vs vulgarian

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.

English

Etymology

vulgar +? -ian. Compare Late Latin vulg?rius, Latin vulg?ris.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v?l?????i.?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /v?l?????i.?n/
• Rhymes: -æ?i?n

Noun

vulgarian (plural vulgarians)

1. A vulgar individual, especially one who emphasizes or is oblivious to his or her vulgar qualities.
   • 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Ebb-Tide [1]:

     He was by this time on the deck, but he had the art to be quite unapproachable; the friendliest vulgarian, three parts drunk, would have known better than take liberties...

   • 1907, William James, Social Value of the College-Bred [2]:

     But to have spent one's youth at college, in contact with the choice and rare and precious, and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian, unable to scent out human excellence or to divine it amid its accidents, to know it only when ticketed and labeled and forced on us by others, this indeed should be accounted the very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education.

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Adjective

vulgarian (comparative more vulgarian, superlative most vulgarian)

1. Having the characteristics of a vulgarian, vulgar.

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