bushleague
adjective
inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.
Origin:
1905–10, Americanism
1905–10, Americanism
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bush league
1908, from bush in the slang sense of "rural, provincial," which originally was not a value judgment.
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Bushleague
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| 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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