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- Regno Unito//ˈbɵʃ//
- Regno Unito/[ˈbɵʃ] ~ [ˈbɘʃ]/
- Australia//ˈbʊʃ//
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A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
sostantivo
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A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
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A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
bushes to support pea vines
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arcaicoA thicket, a small wood, or a tract of uncleared, woody land.
We saw a bush of wood, and in the heart of it a little open space.
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storicoA shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
If it be true, that good wine needs no buſh, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue.
"Well," replied Lady Mary, "who is to know where good wine is sold, unless you hang out the bush."
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gergoA person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
As he ſtood on one ſide for a minute or ſo, unbuttoning his waſte-coat, and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greaſy landſkip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth'd gap, overſhaded with a grizzly buſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar's wallet for its'^([sic]) proviſion.
I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue.
But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush.
I push my seed in her bush for life / It's gonna work because I'm pushing it right
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The tail, or brush, of a fox.
Etimologia
From Middle English bush, from Old English *busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Busk (“bush”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest, wood”), German Busch (“bush, shrub; small forest, grove”), Luxembourgish Bësch (“forest, wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk busk (“bush, shrub”), Icelandic buski (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic. Compare typologically Russian за́росли (zárosli) (akin to расти́ (rastí)). Also compare Russian быльё (bylʹjó) (distantly cognate via *bʰuH-).
verbo
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To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene.
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To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
to bush peas
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To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground
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To become bushy (often used with up).
I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.
sostantivo
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arcaicoA tavern or wine merchant.
Etimologia
From the sign of a bush usually employed to indicate such places.
sostantivo
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Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges.
The Gentlemen took to the Bush and escaped being made prisoners.
Mad terror had scattered them, men, women, and children, through the bush, and they had never returned.
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Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges. The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
(Davis) my Convict Servant who was in the Boat with me begd of me not to goe on Shore he is one of the greatest Cowards living I cald to them again when I got to ther fire for the[y] had run into the bush on there Seing the Boat pulling towards them
I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in the bush between here and Perth.
Little Dot had lost her way in the bush.
The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.
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Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges. An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
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Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated, typically distinguished from absolute wilderness by implying a degree of marginal human engagement or proximity to settlement edges. The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
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A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
Etimologia
A semantic expansion of bush (see Etymology 1, archaic and dialectal sense of “thicket” or “small wood”), which survived in English dialects and London‐area toponyms (such as Shepherd’s Bush). In its native English form, the term inherently denoted a scrubby, localized feature. In British colonies, this specific sense was applied to the broader landscape, evolving into a mass noun for the wilderness. This development was likely reinforced by, or originated as a semantic loan from, the cognate older Dutch bosch (modern bos (“wood, forest”)), which had undergone a similar semantic shift in the Dutch settlements of North America (such as New Netherland) and later the Cape Colony. From the North American Dutch loan, English acquired the concept of “the bush” as a vast, untamed wilderness. Evidence of this early linguistic integration appears in late 17th‐century English records via compound calques from both major Dutch contact zones: the 1695 North American use of “bushloopers” (anglicized from Dutch boschlooper (“woods‐runner”)) and the 1699 Cape Colony reference to “Wild‐bush‐Men” (translating Cape Dutch Bosjesman). However, as an independent topographical noun describing the South African landscape, the English term is not securely attested until circa 1780. In Australian English, the term was used as early as 1790 by First Lieutenant Ralph Clark. As a native of Edinburgh, Clark would have been familiar with the Scots cognates buss and bush (retaining the archaic sense of a wood or clump of trees); this native linguistic framework likely made him highly receptive to the broader Dutch usage he encountered during his prior military service in the Netherlands and North America. Australia served as the crucible where these semantic threads merged. The widely spaced, scrubby eucalypt woodlands perfectly matched the native British English visual of a low‐canopied thicket, while their vastness fulfilled the Dutch concept of an untamed expanse. This convergence caused the term to rapidly supplant the traditional English woods and forest, as the open Australian landscape differed markedly from the dense, deciduous canopies of Europe. Via early 19th‐century trans‐Tasman trade and settlement routes out of New South Wales, the term was subsequently exported to New Zealand, where it was applied to the region’s dense, temperate rainforests. The adverbial usage of the term (dropping the preposition and article, as in go bush or head bush) likely originated in early 19th‐century New South Wales Pidgin. As documented by contact linguists, this syntax reflects typical pidginization (preposition deletion) alongside the substrate influence of Indigenous Australian languages, which frequently utilize absolute locatives or directional adverbs rather than prepositions for spatial movement. From this contact language, the grammatical shorthand permeated the broader colonial vernacular.
avverbio
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Towards the direction of the outback.
On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
aggettivo
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Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
They’re supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.
Etimologia
Back-formation from bush league.
sostantivo
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Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
sostantivo
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A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
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A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
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A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
Etimologia
From Middle Dutch busse (“box; wheel bushing”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā. More at box.
verbo
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To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
to bush a pivot hole
Forme
- plurale
- bushes
- comparativo
- more bush
- superlativo
- most bush
- passato
- bushed
- participio passato
- bushed
- participio presente
- bushing
- 3ª persona singolare
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