bushwa

[boosh-wah, -waw]

Origin

noun

rubbishy nonsense; baloney; bull: You'll hear a lot of boring bushwa about his mechanical skill.

Also, bush·wah.

Origin:
1915–20; perhaps representing bourgeois¹, from its use in political rhetoric, the actual sense being lost; taken as euphemism for bullshit

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bushwa

1920, U.S. slang, euphemistic for bullshit.

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