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bush⋅man

  [boosh-muhn]
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–noun, plural -men.
1. a woodsman.
2. Australian. a pioneer; dweller in the bush.
3. (initial capital letter) San.
Origin:
1775–85; bush 1 + man 1 , modeled on Afrik boschjesman lit., man of the bush
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Bush·man   (bŏŏsh'mən)   
n.  
  1. See San.
  2. bushman Australian One who lives or travels in the wilderness, especially in the outback.

[Translation of Afrikaans boschjeman : boschje, bush + man, man.]
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Bushmen

The nomadic hunting and gathering peoples of the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, in Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. (See hunting and gathering societies and nomadism.)

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