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bush en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbʊʃ] (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈbʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • [ˈbʉʃ] (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /ˈbʌʃ/ (Scotland, traditional)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɵʃ/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (New-Zealand)
  • [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English bush, from Old English *busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Busk (“bush”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest, wood”), German Busch (“bush, shrub; small forest, grove”), Luxembourgish Bësch (“forest, wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk busk (“bush, shrub”), Icelandic buski (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic. Compare typologically Russian за́росли (zárosli) (akin to расти́ (rastí)). Also compare Russian быльё (bylʹjó) (distantly cognate via *bʰuH-).

Meanings

  1. 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.
    • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 18:
  2. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
    • bushes to support pea vines
  3. (archaic, dialectal, in placenames) A thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land.
    • We saw a bush of wood, and in the heart of it a little open space. 1894, S. R. Crockett, The Raiders:
  4. (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.
    • "Well," replied Lady Mary, "who is to know where good wine is sold, unless you hang out the bush." 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter IV. The Fête.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 31:
    • If it be true, that good wine needs no buſh, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue. c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], page 207, column 2:
  5. (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
    • I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue. 1941, Henry Miller, Under the Roofs of Paris (Opus Pistorum), New York: Grove Press, published 1983, page 27:
    • I think on Saturday I'm gonna find out if red-haired girls have a red bush! 2025 September 3, “Wok Is Dead”, in South Park, season 27, episode 4, spoken by Butters:
    • As he ſtood on one ſide for a minute or ſo, unbuttoning his waſte-coat, and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greaſy landſkip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth'd gap, overſhaded with a grizzly buſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar's wallet for its'^([sic]) proviſion. 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 65:
    • But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush. 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 787:
    • I push my seed in her bush for life / It's gonna work because I'm pushing it right 2002, “The Seed (2.0)”, in Phrenology, performed by The Roots:
  6. The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Forms

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bushes Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

sloe-bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush mango (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bellyache bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush wee (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · wishbone bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush typhus (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · caper bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · highbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · jewbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · elephant bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · strawberry bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush lily (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · shadow-vinnie bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · beat about the bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · coralbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush thick-knee (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushful (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushlike (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Bushbury (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · pepperbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · smoke bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Bush Hill Park (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · snowball bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushlark (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · sloebush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush frog (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Chanukah bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · cranberry bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush medicine (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush candle (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · skunkbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushrope (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush baby (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · snowbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · burning bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush balladry (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · whortle bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushcat (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · apple bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · busher (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · kapok bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · sugarbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushrue (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushbird (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · antelope bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · unbushlike (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · emu bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushtop (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush-metal (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · sourbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush-made (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · rufous bush robin (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · pale-footed bush warbler (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · flannelbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · spicebush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · maybush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · nannybush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · lanolin bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush salute (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · elderbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush apple (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush dog (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush track (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · broom-bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · hobble-bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · gentry bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · cancer bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · fern bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush jacket (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · squawbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushfighting (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · redbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · butterfly bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · common hop bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · steeplebush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · stringbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · golden bush robin (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush tomato (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushy (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · juniper bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush jasmine (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · saltbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · iodine bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · burrobrush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · potato bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushwillow (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush clover (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · octopus bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush cricket (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · broombush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · needle bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush fly (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · indigo bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · lowbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush rum (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · hobblebush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · ivory bush coral (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · creosote bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush out (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · smokebush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · rebush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · cone-bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush bar (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush helicopter (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · rufous bush chat (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · cone bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush bean (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · macaw bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Hollybush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · broom bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · fit-bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · quinine bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Shepherd's Bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush brown (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · creambush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush taxi (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Christmas bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · pearl bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · beat around the bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · glory bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bubby bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · shadbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush song (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Mexican bush sage (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushlet (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushtit (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · fork-tailed bush katydid (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · devil-in-a-bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush lemon (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · stop two gaps with one bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Bushwick (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · staggerbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · devil-in-the-bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · rosebush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · ale-bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · turkey bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush ape (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · sloe bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · dusky bush tanager (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · snow daisy-bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Hottentot's poison bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush banana (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushboy (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · milkbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · tea bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · paperbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushpumpkin (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush muhly (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush-shrike (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushcricket (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush rose (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush vetch (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushcamp (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · buttonbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · typical bush warbler (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · nitre bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · candle bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush ballad (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · basket bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush pee (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · find a friendly bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush goat (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · beauty bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush hammer (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bird-in-a-bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush hog (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · needlebush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush turkey (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush knife (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Japanese bush warbler (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bitterbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · gallbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · stinkbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushwhacker (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush-basher (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushveld (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush sunflower (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush-hen (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · stately bush brown (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · mintbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · groundsel bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · spearbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Pine Bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · calico bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Cutbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Bush Negro (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · juniper bush katydid (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · brittlebush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushbuck (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush shrike (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · river-bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · mesquite bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush-cricket (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · hemp bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · fever bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Nutbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · coffee bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · silverbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · flaxbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush pole (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush sickness (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · round-headed bush clover (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Hanukah bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushless (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bitou bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · diaper bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · honeybush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · Hanukkah bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushchat (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · soldierbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · blanket bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush moa (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush trimmer (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · little bush moa (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush cow (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · tie bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · eyelash bush viper (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushfighter (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush violet (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · hopbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · inkbush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · daisy bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bushly (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush flight (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush-balladry (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · saddle-backed bush cricket (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · jack-in-the-bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · bush honeysuckle (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1)) · coyote bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 1))

Relateds

ambush · bouquet

Synonyms

mound · growth · thatch · pubes · shrub · carpet · netherhair · grove · maidenhair · grass · rug · fur · snatch · short hairs · forest · muffin · fluff · short and curlies · nest · lettuce · shrubs · fuzz · stuff · bush · floss

Translations (184)

lb Trausch (category of woody plant) · it pelo pubico (pubic hair) · es vello púbico (pubic hair) · kmr devî (category of woody plant) · it arbusto (category of woody plant) · oc arbust (category of woody plant) · ar شَجَرَة (category of woody plant) · as যৌনকেশ (pubic hair) · id jembut (pubic hair) · bn গুল্ম (category of woody plant) · fi puska (pubic hair) · es pendejos (pubic hair) · as কামকেশ (pubic hair) · lb Strauch (category of woody plant) · af bosse (category of woody plant) · as বাল (pubic hair) · th ไม้พุ่ม (category of woody plant) · sv buske (pubic hair) · es pelos púbicos (pubic hair) · kl orpikkat (category of woody plant) · gmw-cfr Bösch (category of woody plant) · tr çalı (category of woody plant) · pt pintelheira (pubic hair) · grc θάμνος (category of woody plant) · as গুপ্তকেশ (pubic hair) · ga tor (category of woody plant) · te పొద (category of woody plant) · alt каак (category of woody plant) · fr buisson (category of woody plant) · gl mato (category of woody plant) · kmr rêv (pubic hair) · ru куста́рник (category of woody plant) · ga tom (category of woody plant) · ko 관목 (category of woody plant) · km គុម្ព (category of woody plant) · ml കുറ്റിച്ചെടി (category of woody plant) · de Strauch (category of woody plant) · yi קוסט (category of woody plant) · kl orpigaq (category of woody plant) · gu ઝાડવું (category of woody plant) · de Busch (category of woody plant) · uk кущ (category of woody plant) · ka ბუჩქი (category of woody plant) · mt arbuxxell (category of woody plant) · el θάμνος (pubic hair) · ms semak (category of woody plant) · wa bouxhon (category of woody plant) · fi pensas (category of woody plant) · otk 𐰃 (category of woody plant) · mk џбун (category of woody plant) · ny tchire (category of woody plant) · he שִׂיחַ (category of woody plant) · gl frundío (category of woody plant) · km គុម្ពព្រឹក្ស (category of woody plant) · sh гр̏м (category of woody plant) · km គុម្ពោត (category of woody plant) · vi cây bụi (category of woody plant) · eo arbedo (category of woody plant) · fi karvat (pubic hair) · vo bimül (category of woody plant) · svs ghoghoana (category of woody plant) · hi झाड़ी (category of woody plant) · ky бадал (category of woody plant) · fo runnur (category of woody plant) · sq gëmushë (category of woody plant) · as জোপোহা (category of woody plant) · sh gȑm (category of woody plant) · uz buta (category of woody plant) · lt krūmas (category of woody plant) · ja 低木 (category of woody plant) · am ቁጥቋጦ (category of woody plant) · an arbuzo (category of woody plant) · az kol (category of woody plant) · mhr вондо (category of woody plant) · ru куст (category of woody plant) · fro buison (category of woody plant) · bg храст (category of woody plant) · chr ᏚᏩᏱᏢ (category of woody plant) · pt pentelhada (pubic hair) · lv krūms (category of woody plant) · fr touffe (pubic hair) · tl palumpong (category of woody plant) · boj ñañu (category of woody plant) · gl pentello (pubic hair) · ja 茂み (category of woody plant) · sh šumica (pubic hair) · cop ⲃⲱ (category of woody plant) · cmn 灌木 (category of woody plant) · arz جب (category of woody plant) · sk ker (category of woody plant) · fi tuhero (pubic hair) · cs keř (category of woody plant) · egy b-bA-A-t:Hn (category of woody plant) · nl bosje (pubic hair) · gl arbusto (category of woody plant) · kn ಪೊದೆ (category of woody plant) · ro tufă (category of woody plant) · la dūmus (category of woody plant) · hy թուփ (category of woody plant) · nl heester (category of woody plant) · ca arbust (category of woody plant) · ta புதர் (category of woody plant) · wyi wurrgumang (category of woody plant) · pt arbusto (category of woody plant) · si අකුල (category of woody plant) · egy kA-A-kA-A-M2 (category of woody plant) · sq shkurre (category of woody plant) · my ချုံ (category of woody plant) · ny thengo (category of woody plant) · ja 灌木 (category of woody plant) · gl gamallo (category of woody plant) · wyi yerin (category of woody plant) · bg ка́теричка (pubic hair) · is runni (category of woody plant) · zu isihlahla (category of woody plant) · pl krzew (category of woody plant) · pt pentelheira (pubic hair) · da kønshår (pubic hair) · ast arbustu (category of woody plant) · ur جھاڑی (category of woody plant) · fr arbrisseau (category of woody plant) · tg бутта (category of woody plant) · la frutex (category of woody plant) · it cespuglio (category of woody plant) · tk gyrymsylyk (category of woody plant) · nds Struuk (category of woody plant) · eo arbusto (category of woody plant) · rup tufã (category of woody plant) · sv buske (category of woody plant) · ko 수풀 (category of woody plant) · nl struik (category of woody plant) · cy llwyn (category of woody plant) · sh žbȗn (category of woody plant) · udm куак (category of woody plant) · sk krík (category of woody plant) · ms belukar (category of woody plant) · mn бут (category of woody plant) · et põõsas (category of woody plant) · be куст (category of woody plant) · sw kichaka (category of woody plant) · pt moita (category of woody plant) · nb busk (category of woody plant) · fa-ira بوتِه (category of woody plant) · mk грму́шка (category of woody plant) · sl grm (category of woody plant) · liv pȭzõ (category of woody plant) · fr persil (pubic hair) · sq ferrëkuqe (category of woody plant) · th พุ่ม (category of woody plant) · sh шумица (pubic hair) · nds Busch (category of woody plant) · nl schaamhaar (pubic hair) · pl krzak (category of woody plant) · lo ພຸ່ມໄມ້ (category of woody plant) · ro arbust (category of woody plant) · uga 𐎌𐎈𐎚 (category of woody plant) · tt куак (category of woody plant) · id semak (category of woody plant) · kmr teraş (category of woody plant) · alt ӱйӱҥат (category of woody plant) · or ବୁଦା (category of woody plant) · gl albustre (category of woody plant) · ar شُجَيْرَة (category of woody plant) · hu bokor (category of woody plant) · az bürmə (category of woody plant) · mg kirihitra (category of woody plant) · af bos (category of woody plant) · sh жбу̑н (category of woody plant) · arn retron (category of woody plant) · mrj тӹшкӓ (category of woody plant) · el θάμνος (category of woody plant) · kk бұта (category of woody plant) · pdt Bosch (category of woody plant) · ro tufiș de arbuști (category of woody plant) · fr toison (pubic hair) · es arbusto (category of woody plant) · eu zuhaixka (category of woody plant) · gl matogueira (category of woody plant) · ru волосня́ (pubic hair) · ba ҡыуаҡ (category of woody plant) · ltg kryums (category of woody plant) · it cespuglio (pubic hair) · gl garamallo (category of woody plant) · da busk (category of woody plant)

bush en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbʊʃ] (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈbʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • [ˈbʉʃ] (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /ˈbʌʃ/ (Scotland, traditional)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɵʃ/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (New-Zealand)
  • [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English bush, from Old English *busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Busk (“bush”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest, wood”), German Busch (“bush, shrub; small forest, grove”), Luxembourgish Bësch (“forest, wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk busk (“bush, shrub”), Icelandic buski (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic. Compare typologically Russian за́росли (zárosli) (akin to расти́ (rastí)). Also compare Russian быльё (bylʹjó) (distantly cognate via *bʰuH-).

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
    • Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene. 1726, Homer, “The Odyssey”, in Alexander Pope, transl., edited by Samuel Johnson, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., published 1839, page 404:
  2. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
    • to bush peas
  3. 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
  4. To become bushy (often used with up).
    • I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bushing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bushes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bushed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bushed Tense=Past lexicographic

bush en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbʊʃ] (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈbʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • [ˈbʉʃ] (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /ˈbʌʃ/ (Scotland, traditional)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɵʃ/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (New-Zealand)
  • [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From the sign of a bush usually employed to indicate such places.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bushes Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

good wine needs no bush

bush en · ADV · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbʊʃ] (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈbʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • [ˈbʉʃ] (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /ˈbʌʃ/ (Scotland, traditional)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɵʃ/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (New-Zealand)
  • [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

A semantic expansion of bush (see Etymology 1, archaic and dialectal sense of “thicket” or “small wood”), which survived in English dialects and London‐area toponyms (such as Shepherd’s Bush). In its native English form, the term inherently denoted a scrubby, localized feature. In British colonies, this specific sense was applied to the broader landscape, evolving into a mass noun for the wilderness. This development was likely reinforced by, or originated as a semantic loan from, the cognate older Dutch bosch (modern bos (“wood, forest”)), which had undergone a similar semantic shift in the Dutch settlements of North America (such as New Netherland) and later the Cape Colony. From the North American Dutch loan, English acquired the concept of “the bush” as a vast, untamed wilderness. Evidence of this early linguistic integration appears in late 17th‐century English records via compound calques from both major Dutch contact zones: the 1695 North American use of “bushloopers” (anglicized from Dutch boschlooper (“woods‐runner”)) and the 1699 Cape Colony reference to “Wild‐bush‐Men” (translating Cape Dutch Bosjesman). However, as an independent topographical noun describing the South African landscape, the English term is not securely attested until circa 1780. In Australian English, the term was used as early as 1790 by First Lieutenant Ralph Clark. As a native of Edinburgh, Clark would have been familiar with the Scots cognates buss and bush (retaining the archaic sense of a wood or clump of trees); this native linguistic framework likely made him highly receptive to the broader Dutch usage he encountered during his prior military service in the Netherlands and North America. Australia served as the crucible where these semantic threads merged. The widely spaced, scrubby eucalypt woodlands perfectly matched the native British English visual of a low‐canopied thicket, while their vastness fulfilled the Dutch concept of an untamed expanse. This convergence caused the term to rapidly supplant the traditional English woods and forest, as the open Australian landscape differed markedly from the dense, deciduous canopies of Europe. Via early 19th‐century trans‐Tasman trade and settlement routes out of New South Wales, the term was subsequently exported to New Zealand, where it was applied to the region’s dense, temperate rainforests. The adverbial usage of the term (dropping the preposition and article, as in go bush or head bush) likely originated in early 19th‐century New South Wales Pidgin. As documented by contact linguists, this syntax reflects typical pidginization (preposition deletion) alongside the substrate influence of Indigenous Australian languages, which frequently utilize absolute locatives or directional adverbs rather than prepositions for spatial movement. From this contact language, the grammatical shorthand permeated the broader colonial vernacular.

Meanings

  1. (Australia, not-comparable) Towards the direction of the outback.
    • On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.

wikipedia: Ralph Clark · wikipedia: New Netherland

bush en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbʊʃ] (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈbʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • [ˈbʉʃ] (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /ˈbʌʃ/ (Scotland, traditional)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɵʃ/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (New-Zealand)
  • [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

A semantic expansion of bush (see Etymology 1, archaic and dialectal sense of “thicket” or “small wood”), which survived in English dialects and London‐area toponyms (such as Shepherd’s Bush). In its native English form, the term inherently denoted a scrubby, localized feature. In British colonies, this specific sense was applied to the broader landscape, evolving into a mass noun for the wilderness. This development was likely reinforced by, or originated as a semantic loan from, the cognate older Dutch bosch (modern bos (“wood, forest”)), which had undergone a similar semantic shift in the Dutch settlements of North America (such as New Netherland) and later the Cape Colony. From the North American Dutch loan, English acquired the concept of “the bush” as a vast, untamed wilderness. Evidence of this early linguistic integration appears in late 17th‐century English records via compound calques from both major Dutch contact zones: the 1695 North American use of “bushloopers” (anglicized from Dutch boschlooper (“woods‐runner”)) and the 1699 Cape Colony reference to “Wild‐bush‐Men” (translating Cape Dutch Bosjesman). However, as an independent topographical noun describing the South African landscape, the English term is not securely attested until circa 1780. In Australian English, the term was used as early as 1790 by First Lieutenant Ralph Clark. As a native of Edinburgh, Clark would have been familiar with the Scots cognates buss and bush (retaining the archaic sense of a wood or clump of trees); this native linguistic framework likely made him highly receptive to the broader Dutch usage he encountered during his prior military service in the Netherlands and North America. Australia served as the crucible where these semantic threads merged. The widely spaced, scrubby eucalypt woodlands perfectly matched the native British English visual of a low‐canopied thicket, while their vastness fulfilled the Dutch concept of an untamed expanse. This convergence caused the term to rapidly supplant the traditional English woods and forest, as the open Australian landscape differed markedly from the dense, deciduous canopies of Europe. Via early 19th‐century trans‐Tasman trade and settlement routes out of New South Wales, the term was subsequently exported to New Zealand, where it was applied to the region’s dense, temperate rainforests. The adverbial usage of the term (dropping the preposition and article, as in go bush or head bush) likely originated in early 19th‐century New South Wales Pidgin. As documented by contact linguists, this syntax reflects typical pidginization (preposition deletion) alongside the substrate influence of Indigenous Australian languages, which frequently utilize absolute locatives or directional adverbs rather than prepositions for spatial movement. From this contact language, the grammatical shorthand permeated the broader colonial vernacular.

Meanings

  1. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, South-Africa, countable, often, qualifier:Alaska, uncountable, with “the”) Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.
    • The Gentlemen took to the Bush and escaped being made prisoners. 1779, Solomon Lovell, The Original Journal of General Solomon Lovell, Kept During the Penobscot Expedition, 1779: With a Sketch of His Life by Gilbert Nash, Weymouth, Mass.: Weymouth Historical Society, published 1881, page 102:
    • Mad terror had scattered them, men, women, and children, through the bush, and they had never returned. 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:
  2. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, South-Africa, countable, often, qualifier:Alaska, uncountable, with “the”) Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges. ▸ The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
    • The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature. 2000, Robert Holden, Paul Cliff, Jack Bedson, The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood, page 16:
    • 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. 1894, Henry Lawson, “We Called Him "Ally" for Short”, in Short Stories in Prose and Verse:
    • 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. 2021 September 6, “Australian farmers under pressure from climate change”, in Australian Herald, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2021:
    • (Davis) my Convict Servant who was in the Boat with me begd of me not to goe on Shore he is one of the greatest Cowards living I cald to them again when I got to ther fire for the[y] had run into the bush on there Seing the Boat pulling towards them 1790, Ralph Clark, Journal:
    • Little Dot had lost her way in the bush. 1899, Ethel C. Pedley, Dot and the Kangaroo:
  3. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, South-Africa, countable, often, qualifier:Alaska, uncountable, with “the”) Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges. ▸ An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
  4. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, South-Africa, countable, often, qualifier:Alaska, uncountable, with “the”) Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges. ▸ The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
  5. (Canada, countable, uncountable) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bushes Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

bush party (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush-league (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush coat (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush regeneration (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush-popper (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush tucker (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush bread (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush country (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush road (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushie (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushwork (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushwhacking (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush searcher (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush Indian (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush ranching (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushmark (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush-Kanaka (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushperson (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush people (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush-whisky (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush pig (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushworker (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush antelope (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushwoman (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush lawyer (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushfire (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush aircraft (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush tea (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush lot (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush company (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush baptist (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushwalk (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush buggy (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushcraft (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushbaby (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · sugar bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · send bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush trail (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushwalker (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · Australian bush hat (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush plane (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush rat (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush flyer (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushwhacker (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush-ranger (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushranger (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush-French (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush telegraph (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushmeat (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush lore (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush cowboy (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushed (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush fire (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushwalking (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushwhack (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush warbler (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush-pop (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush-rover (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush regen (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush stone-curlew (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · Alaskan bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush airline (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush fever (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush ague (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush-telegraph (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush clearing (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush gang (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush partridge (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush camp (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush rabbit (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush ranch (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushman (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · take to the bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · go bush (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushranging (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush horse (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush meat (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush-crew (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush flying (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush pilot (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush-runner (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushfood (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush-range (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush kanaka (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush mail (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush week (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush tavern (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushland (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bushbash (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3)) · bush flier (Terms derived from bush (Etymology 3))

Descendants

bus · bush · bushbush

Relateds

outback · bushman · backblock

Synonyms

bushlot

Translations (11)

wni matsaha class 6 (remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area) · tpi bus (remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area) · pt mato (remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area) · ga iargúltacht (remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area) · nl bush (remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area) · fr maquis (remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area) · fr brousse (remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area) · fr cambrousse (remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area) · sv bush (remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area) · fi metsä (remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area) · de Busch (remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area)

wikipedia: Ralph Clark · wikipedia: New Netherland

bush en · ADJ · etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbʊʃ] (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈbʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • [ˈbʉʃ] (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /ˈbʌʃ/ (Scotland, traditional)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɵʃ/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (New-Zealand)
  • [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Back-formation from bush league.

Meanings

  1. (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
    • They’re supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more bush Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most bush Degree=Sup lexicographic

bush en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbʊʃ] (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈbʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • [ˈbʉʃ] (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /ˈbʌʃ/ (Scotland, traditional)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɵʃ/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (New-Zealand)
  • [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Back-formation from bush league.

Meanings

  1. Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior

bush en · NOUN · etymology 5

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbʊʃ] (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈbʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • [ˈbʉʃ] (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /ˈbʌʃ/ (Scotland, traditional)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɵʃ/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (New-Zealand)
  • [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch busse (“box; wheel bushing”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā. More at box.

Meanings

  1. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
  2. 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.
  3. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bushes Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

reducing bush

Synonyms

bushing (washer or cylinder)

bush en · VERB · etymology 5

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbʊʃ] (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈbʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • [ˈbʉʃ] (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /ˈbʌʃ/ (Scotland, traditional)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɵʃ/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (New-Zealand)
  • [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈbʊʃ] ~ [ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɨ̞ʃ] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈbʊʃ/ (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch busse (“box; wheel bushing”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā. More at box.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
    • to bush a pivot hole

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bushing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bushes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bushed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bushed Tense=Past lexicographic