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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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A bush (woody plant)

FromMiddle Englishbush, fromOld Englishbusċ,*bysċ(“copse, grove, scrub”,in placenames), fromProto-West Germanic*busk, fromProto-Germanic*buskaz(“bush, thicket”), probably fromProto-Indo-European*bʰuH-(“to grow”).Doublet ofbosque.

Cognate withWest Frisianbosk(“forest”),Dutchbos(“forest”),GermanBusch(“bush”),Danish andNorwegianbusk(“bush, shrub”),Swedishbuske(“bush, shrub”),Persianبیشه(bêša/biše,“woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latinboscus,Occitanbòsc,Frenchbois,bûche andbuisson,Italianbosco andboscaglia,Spanishbosque,Portuguesebosque) derive from the Germanic.

Noun

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bush (pluralbushes)

  1. (horticulture) Awoodyplant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall;ahorticultural rather than strictlybotanical category.
    Synonym:shrub
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC,page18:
      I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberrybushes. 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.
  2. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
    bushes to support pea vines
  3. (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch ofivy (sacred toBacchus), hung out atvintners' doors, or as atavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
  4. (slang, vulgar) A person'spubic hair,especially a woman's.[from 1745][1]
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:pubic hair
    • 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, inMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton andRalph Griffiths] […],→OCLC,page65:
      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 grizzlybuſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar’s wallet for its’ proviſion.
    • 1941,Henry Miller,Under the Roofs of Paris (Opus Pistorum), New York: Grove Press, published1983,page27:
      I rub herbush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue.
    • 1982,Lawrence Durrell,Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published2004, page787:
      But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in herbush.
    • 2002, “The Seed (2.0)”, inPhrenology, performed byThe Roots:
      I push my seed in herbush for life / It's gonna work because I'm pushing it right
  5. (hunting) Thetail, orbrush, of afox.
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Terms derived frombush (Etymology 1)
Translations
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category of woody plant
pubic hair

Verb

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bush (third-person singular simple presentbushes,present participlebushing,simple past and past participlebushed)

  1. (intransitive) Tobranch thickly in the manner of a bush.
    • 1726,Homer, “The Odyssey”, inAlexander Pope, transl., edited by Samuel Johnson,The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., published1839,page404:
      Around it, and above, for ever green, / Thebushing alders form'd a shady scene.
  2. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
    tobush peas
  3. To use abush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; toharrow with a bush.
    tobush a piece of land; tobush seeds into the ground
  4. To become bushy (often used withup).
    I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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bush (pluralbushes)

  1. (archaic) Atavern orwinemerchant.
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Etymology 3

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From olderDutchbosch (modernbos(“wood, forest”)), first appearing in the Dutch colonies to designate an uncleared district of a colony, and thence adopted in British colonies asbush. Could alternatively be interpreted as a semantic loan, asbush (etymology 1) is cognate to the aforementioned archaic Dutchbosch.

Noun

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bush (countable anduncountable,pluralbushes)

  2. (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largelyundeveloped anduncultivated.
    2. (Australia) Thecountryside area ofAustralia that is lessarid and lessremote than theoutback;loosely, areas of natural flora even withinconurbations.
      • 1894,Henry Lawson, “We Called Him “Ally” for Short”, inShort Stories in Prose and Verse‎[1]:
        I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in thebush between here and Perth.
      • 1899,Ethel C. Pedley,Dot and the Kangaroo‎[2]:
        Little Dot had lost her way in thebush.
      • 2000, Robert Holden, Paul Cliff, Jack Bedson,The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood,page16:
        The theme of children lost in thebush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.
      • 2021 September 6, “Australian farmers under pressure from climate change”, inAustralian Herald‎[3]:
        The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest Australia may have to jettison tracts of thebush unless there is a massive investment in climate-change adaptation and planning.
    3. (New Zealand) An area ofNew Zealand covered in forest,especially native forest.
    4. (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada;upcountry.
  3. (Canada) Awood lot orbluff on a farm.
    Synonym:bushlot
    Hyponym:sugarbush
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Terms derived frombush (Etymology 3)
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  • bushman (not derived frombush but separately derived from cognate Dutch)
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Translations
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remote undeveloped and uncultivated rural area
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Adverb

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bush (notcomparable)

  1. (Australia) Towards the direction of theoutback.
    On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and headbush on their own.

Etymology 4

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Back-formation frombush league.

Adjective

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bush (comparativemorebush,superlativemostbush)

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

Noun

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bush

  1. (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"

Etymology 5

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FromMiddle Dutchbusse(“box; wheel bushing”), fromProto-West Germanic*buhsā. More atbox.

Noun

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bush (pluralbushes)

  1. A thickwasher 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 agun, through which theventhole is bored.
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Verb

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bush (third-person singular simple presentbushes,present participlebushing,simple past and past participlebushed)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with a bush orlining; toline.
    tobush a pivot hole

References

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  1. ^Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “bush (n.)”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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Either borrowed throughVulgar Latin fromLatinbuxus,[1] or fromProto-Indo-European*bʰuH(“to grow”) (compareDutchbos(“woods”),Englishbush).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bush m (pluralbushe, definitebushi, definite pluralbushet)

  1. (botany)boxwood (Buxus sempervirens)
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Etymology 2

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Possibly fromProto-Indo-European*bʰuH(“to grow”).

Noun

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bush m (pluralbusha, definitebushi, definite pluralbushat)

  1. amythologicalmonster
Declension
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Declension ofbush
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativebushbushibushabushat
accusativebushin
dativebushibushitbushavebushave
ablativebushash
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References

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  1. ^Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “bush”, inAlbanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill,→ISBN, page42

Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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CompareRomanianbuș.

Noun

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bush m (pluralbush) orn (pluralbushi/bushe)

  1. fist

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Burushaski

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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bushبشنگو(bushongo)pl

  1. cat

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References

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Sadaf Munshi (2015) “Word Lists”, inBurushaski Language Documentation Project‎[4].

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishbusċ,*bysċ, fromProto-West Germanic*busk. Cognates includeMiddle Dutchbosch,busch,Middle High Germanbusch,bosch, and alsoOld Frenchbois,buisson.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bush (pluralbushes)

  1. bush (low-lying plant)

Descendants

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References

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