bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊʃ/
ipa: /bʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: bushes
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: Mad terror had scattered them, men, women, and children, through the bush, and they had never returned.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199:
glosses: Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1894, Henry Lawson, “We Called Him “Ally” for Short”, in Short Stories in Prose and Verse:
text: Little Dot had lost her way in the bush.
ref: 1899, Ethel C. Pedley, Dot and the Kangaroo:
text: The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.
ref: 2000, Robert Holden, Paul Cliff, Jack Bedson, The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood, page 16:
text: The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest Australia may have to jettison tracts of the bush unless there is a massive investment in climate-change adaptation and planning.
ref: 2021 September 6, “Australian farmers under pressure from climate change”, in Australian Herald, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2021:
glosses: Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
glosses: Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
glosses: Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
synonyms: bushlot
glosses: A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)
word: Alaskan bush
sense: Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)
word: Australian bush hat
sense: Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)
word: bush ague
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word: bush aircraft
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word: bush airline
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word: bush antelope
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word: bushbaby
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word: bush baptist
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word: bushbash
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word: bush bread
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word: bush buggy
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word: bush camp
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word: bush clearing
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word: bush coat
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word: bush company
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word: bush country
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word: bush cowboy
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word: bushcraft
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word: bush-crew
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word: bushed
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word: bush fever
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word: bush fire
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word: bushfire
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word: bush flier
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word: bush flyer
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word: bush flying
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word: bushfood
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word: bush-French
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word: bush gang
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word: bush horse
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word: bushie
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word: bush Indian
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word: bush kanaka
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word: bush-Kanaka
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word: bushland
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word: bush lawyer
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word: bush-league
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word: bush lore
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word: bush lot
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word: bush mail
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word: bushmark
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word: bush meat
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word: bushmeat
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word: bush partridge
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word: bush party
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word: bush people
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word: bushperson
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word: bush pig
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word: bush pilot
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word: bush plane
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word: bush-pop
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word: bush-popper
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word: bush rabbit
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word: bush ranch
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word: bush ranching
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word: bush-range
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word: bushranger
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word: bush-ranger
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word: bushranging
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word: bush rat
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word: bush regen
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word: bush regeneration
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word: bush road
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word: bush-rover
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word: bush-runner
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word: bush searcher
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word: bush stone-curlew
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word: bush tavern
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word: bush tea
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word: bush telegraph
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word: bush-telegraph
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word: bush trail
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word: bush tucker
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word: bushwalk
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word: bushwalker
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word: bushwalking
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word: bush warbler
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word: bush week
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word: bushwhack
sense: Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)
word: bushwhacker
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word: bushwhacking
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word: bush-whisky
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word: bushwoman
sense: Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)
word: bushwork
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word: bushworker
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word: bushman
sense: Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)
word: go bush
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word: send bush
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word: sugar bush
sense: Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)
word: take to the bush
Related terms: english: not derived from bush but separately derived from cognate Dutch
translation: not derived from bush but separately derived from cognate Dutch
word: bushman
word: backblock
word: outback