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bushed

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bushed

[boosht]
adjective
1.
overgrown with bushes.
2.
Informal. exhausted; tired out: After all that exercise, I'm bushed.
3.
Canadian Informal. mentally unbalanced as a result of prolonged residence in a sparsely inhabited region.
4.
Australian and New Zealand Slang. unable to find one's direction; lost; confused.

Origin:
1485–95; bush1 + -ed2, -ed3

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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bush

1[boosh]
noun
1.
a low plant with many branches that arise from or near the ground.
2.
a small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant.
3.
something resembling or suggesting this, as a thick, shaggy head of hair.
4.
Also called bush lot. Canadian. a small, wooded lot, especially a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.
5.
the tail of a fox; brush.
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6.
Geography. a stretch of uncultivated land covered with mixed plant growth, bushy vegetation, trees, etc.
7.
a large uncleared area thickly covered with mixed plant growth, trees, etc., as a jungle.
8.
a large, sparsely populated area most of which is uncleared, as areas of Australia and Alaska.
9.
a tree branch hung as a sign before a tavern or vintner's shop.
10.
any tavern sign.
11.
Slang: Vulgar. pubic hair.
12.
Archaic. a wineshop.
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verb (used without object)
13.
to be or become bushy; branch or spread as or like a bush.
verb (used with object)
14.
to cover, protect, support, or mark with a bush or bushes.
adjective
16.
beat around/about the bush, to avoid coming to the point; delay in approaching a subject directly: Stop beating around the bush and tell me what you want.
17.
beat the bushes, to scout or search for persons or things far and wide: beating the bushes for engineers.
18.
go bush, Australian.
a.
to flee or escape into the bush.
b.
Slang. to become wild.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English busshe, Old English busc (in place-names); cognate with Dutch bos wood, German Busch, Old Norse buskr bush

bush·less, adjective
bush·like, adjective

bush

2[boosh]
noun
1.
a lining of metal or the like set into an orifice to guard against wearing by friction, erosion, etc.
2.
verb (used with object)
3.
to furnish with a bush; line with metal.

Origin:
1560–70; < Middle Dutch bussche; see box1
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bushed (bʊʃt)
 
adj
1.  (postpositive) extremely tired; exhausted
2.  (Canadian) mentally disturbed from living in isolation, esp in the north
3.  (Austral), (NZ) lost or bewildered, as in the bush

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Word Origin & History

bush
"many-stemmed woody plant," O.E. bysc, from W.Gmc. *busk "bush, thicket" (cf. Du. bos, Ger. Busch). Influenced by or combined with cognate words from Scandinavian (cf. Dan. busk) and O.Fr. (busche "firewood," apparently of Frank. origin), and also perhaps Anglo-L. bosca "firewood," from M.L. busca (whence
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It. bosco, Fr. bois), which also was borrowed from W.Gmc. In British colonies, applied to the uncleared districts, hence "country," as opposed to town (1780); probably from Du. bosch, in the same sense, since it seems to appear first in former Du. colonies. Meaning "pubic hair" (especially of a woman) is from 1745. To beat the bushes (mid-15c.) is a way to rouse birds so that they fly into the net which others are holding, which originally was the same thing as beating around the bush (see beat).

bushed
"tired," 1870, Amer.Eng., perhaps from earlier sense of "lost in the woods" (1856), from bush.
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bush definition


  1. n.
    the pubic hair. (Usually objectionable.) : How old were you when you started growing a bush?
  2. n. a
    woman considered as a receptacle for the penis. (Rude and derogatory.) : Bubba says he gotta have some bush.
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bushed definition

[bʊʃt]
  1. mod.
    exhausted. : Another hard day! I am more bushed than ever.
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