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bush

1  [boosh]
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–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, esp. a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.
5. the tail of a fox; brush.
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.
–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
15. bush-league.
—Idioms
16. beat around or 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:
bef. 1000; ME busshe, OE busc (in place-names); c. D bos wood, G Busch, ON buskr bush

Related forms:
bushless, adjective
bushlike, adjective
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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Slang Dictionary
bush

  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.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bush 
"many-stemmed woody plant," O.E. bysc, from W.Gmc. *busk "bush, thicket;" infl. by or combined with cognate words from Scand. (cf. Dan. busk) and O.Fr. (busche "firewood," apparently of Frank. origin), and also perhaps Anglo-L. bosca "firewood," from M.L. busca (whence It. bosco, Fr. bois), which was also 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. Bushed "tired" is 1870, perhaps from earlier sense of "lost in the woods" (1856). Bush league is from 1908, from bush in the slang sense of "rural, provincial" (1650s), which was not originally a value judgment. Bushman (1785) is from South African Du. boschjesman, lit. "man of the bush." To beat the bushes (c.1440) is a way to rouse birds so that they fly into the net which others are holding, which is a different matter than beating around the bush (1520) rather than going at it directly.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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