bush

Etymology 1
From, from , , from , from , probably from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Latin and Romance forms (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and, 🇨🇬 and , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬) derive from the Germanic. The sense 'pubic hair' was first attested in 1745.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
 * 3)  A 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.
 * 4)  A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
 * 5)  The tail, or brush, of a fox.
 * 1)  A 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.
 * 2)  A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
 * 3)  The tail, or brush, of a fox.
 * 1)  A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
 * 2)  The tail, or brush, of a fox.
 * 1)  The tail, or brush, of a fox.
 * 1)  The tail, or brush, of a fox.
 * 1)  The tail, or brush, of a fox.
 * 1)  The tail, or brush, of a fox.
 * 1)  The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:, bosse
 * Albanian:, ,
 * Amharic:
 * Anjam: ñañu
 * Arabic: شَجْيْرَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: جب
 * Aragonese:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: tufã
 * Assamese: জোপোহা
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: bürmə,
 * Bashkir: ҡыуаҡ
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: куст
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Franconian: Bösch
 * Cherokee: ᏚᏩᏱᏢ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: arbetaĵo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: runnur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Old French: buison
 * Friulian:
 * Galician: gamallo, garamallo, albustre,, frundío, mato, matogueira
 * Georgian: ბუჩქი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θάμνος
 * Greenlandic: orpikkat, orpigaq
 * Gujarati: ઝાડવું
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: tor, tom
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: бұта
 * Khmer:, , គុម្ពព្រឹក្ស
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ພຸ່ມໄມ້
 * Latgalian: kryums
 * Latin: dūmus, frutex
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: pȭzõ
 * Low German: Struuk, Busch
 * Luxembourgish: Trausch, Strauch
 * Macedonian: грму́шка, џбун
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: arbuxxell
 * Maori:
 * Mapudungun: retron
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: вондо
 * Western Mari: тӹшкӓ
 * Northern Mansi:
 * Norwegian:, buske, runn
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old Turkic: 𐰃
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Bosch
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Rajasthani:
 * Romanian:, , tufiș de arbuști
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: грм, жбун
 * Roman: ,
 * Sinhalese: අකුල
 * Slovak:, krík
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: palumpong
 * Tajik: бутта
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: gyrymsylyk
 * Udmurt: куак
 * Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎈𐎚
 * Ukrainian: кущ
 * Urdu: جھاڑی
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: cây bụi
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קוסט
 * Zulu:


 * Assamese: বাল, গুপ্তকেশ, কামকেশ, যৌনকেশ
 * Bulgarian: катеричка
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: karvat, ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: pentello
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: pelo pubico,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: шумица
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: vello púbico, pelos púbicos,
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
 * 2) To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
 * to bush peas
 * 1) 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
 * 1) To become bushy (often used with up).
 * I can tell when my cat is upset because he'll bush up his tail.
 * I can tell when my cat is upset because he'll bush up his tail.

Etymology 2
From the sign of a bush usually employed to indicate such places.

Noun

 * 1)  A tavern or wine merchant.

Etymology 3
From older (modern ), first appearing in the Dutch colonies to designate an uncleared district of a colony, and thence adopted in British colonies as bush. Could alternatively be interpreted as a semantic loan, as bush (etymology 1) is cognate to the aforementioned archaic Dutch.

Noun

 * 1)  Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
 * 2)  The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
 * 3)  An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
 * 4)  The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
 * 5)  A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
 * 1)  An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
 * 2)  The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
 * 3)  A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
 * 1)  The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
 * 2)  A woodlot or bluff on a farm.

Related terms

 * (not derived from bush but separately derived from cognate Dutch)

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Irish: iargúltacht
 * Ndzwani Comorian: matsaha
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:
 * Tok Pisin: bus

Adverb

 * 1)  Towards the direction of the outback.
 * On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.

Etymology 4
.

Adjective

 * 1)  Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
 * They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.

Noun

 * 1)  Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"

Etymology 5
From, from. More at.

Noun

 * 1) A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

Verb

 * 1)  To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
 * to bush a pivot hole

Etymology 1
Either borrowed through from, or from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1)  boxwood

Etymology 2
Possibly from.

Noun

 * 1) a mythological monster

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun
or n (plural bushi/bushe)


 * 1) fist

Noun

 * 1) cat

Etymology
From, , from. Cognates include 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , and also 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1) bush (low-lying plant)