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bush
1[ boosh ]
noun
- a low plant with many branches that arise from or near the ground.
- a small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant.
- something resembling or suggesting this, as a thick, shaggy head of hair.
- Also called bush lot. Canadian. a small, wooded lot, especially a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.
- the tail of a fox; brush.
- Geography. a stretch of uncultivated land covered with mixed plant growth, bushy vegetation, trees, etc.
- a large uncleared area thickly covered with mixed plant growth, trees, etc., as a jungle.
- a large, sparsely populated area most of which is uncleared, as areas of Australia and Alaska.
- a tree branch hung as a sign before a tavern or vintner's shop.
- any tavern sign.
- Slang: Vulgar. pubic hair.
- Archaic. a wineshop.
verb (used without object)
- to be or become bushy; branch or spread as or like a bush.
verb (used with object)
- to cover, protect, support, or mark with a bush or bushes.
adjective
bush
2[ boosh ]
noun
- a lining of metal or the like set into an orifice to guard against wearing by friction, erosion, etc.
verb (used with object)
- to furnish with a bush; line with metal.
Bush
3[ boosh ]
noun
- Barbara Barbara Pierce, 1925–2018, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush and mother of George W. Bush).
- George (Herbert Walker), 1924–2018, U.S. politician: vice president 1981–89; 41st president of the United States 1989–93.
- George W(alker), born 1946, U.S. businessman and politician: governor of Texas 1994–2001; 43rd president of the United States 2001–09 (son of George H. W. Bush).
- Laura Laura Lane Welch, born 1946, U.S. First Lady 2001–09 (wife of George W. Bush).
- ³Õ²¹²Ô·²Ô±ð·±¹²¹°ù [v, uh, -, nee, -vahr, -ver], 1890–1974, U.S. electrical engineer: education and research administrator.
bush.
4abbreviation for
- bushel; bushels.
Bush
1/ ²úʊʃ /
noun
- BushGeorge1924MUSPOLITICS: head of state George . born 1924, US Republican politician; vice president of the US (1981–89): 41st president of the US (1989–93)
- BushGeorge W(alker.)1946MUSPOLITICS: head of state his son, George W ( alker ). born 1946, US Republican politician; 43rd president of the US (2001–09)
bush
2/ ²úʊʃ /
noun
- a dense woody plant, smaller than a tree, with many branches arising from the lower part of the stem; shrub
- a dense cluster of such shrubs; thicket
- something resembling a bush, esp in density
a bush of hair
- an uncultivated or sparsely settled area, esp in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada: usually covered with trees or shrubs, varying from open shrubby country to dense rainforest
- ( as modifier )
bush flies
- an area of land on a farm on which timber is grown and cut Also calledbush lotwoodlot
- a forested area; woodland
- the bush informal.the countryside, as opposed to the city
out in the bush
- a fox's tail; brush
- obsolete.
- a bunch of ivy hung as a vintner's sign in front of a tavern
- any tavern sign
- beat about the bushto avoid the point at issue; prevaricate
adjective
- informal.rough-and-ready
- informal.ignorant or stupid, esp as considered typical of unwesternized rustic life
- informal.unprofessional, unpolished, or second-rate
- go bush informal.
- to abandon city amenities and live rough
- to run wild
verb
- intr to grow thick and bushy
- tr to cover, decorate, support, etc, with bushes
- bush ittr to camp out in the bush
bush
3/ ²úʊʃ /
noun
- Also called (esp US and Canadian)bushing a thin metal sleeve or tubular lining serving as a bearing or guide
verb
- to fit a bush to (a casing, bearing, etc)
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²ú³Ü²õ³ó·±ô±ð²õ²õ adjective
- ²ú³Ü²õ³ó·±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bush1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bush1
Origin of bush2
Idioms and Phrases
- beat the bushes, to scout or search for persons or things far and wide:
I've been beating the bushes for a skilled, honest, inexpensive renovator.
- beat around / 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.
- go bush, Australian.
- to flee or escape into the bush.
- Slang. to become wild.
More idioms and phrases containing bush
see beat around the bush ; beat the bushes for ; bright-eyed and bushy-tailed .Example Sentences
Horvitz also left some of the original inhabitants of the garden intact, including a rose bush, juniper and four o’clocks.
He also asked his crew to be on the lookout for clearings - free from trees and bushes - just in case one was needed.
Streisand’s huge rose collection includes about a dozen bushes of Lasting Love, Bifano said, including two outside the living room window of her main house.
But there's another sound cutting through the trees of the Zambian bush - the unmistakable high-pitched whine of a bitcoin mine.
One eyewitness described seeing an unidentified man vault a low wall, run between some bushes and get straight into a waiting vehicle which immediately sped off.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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