Meaning of Bush | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tavern or wine merchant.
   archaic
2. Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
   countable, often, uncountable, with-definite-article
3. 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.
4. Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
5. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
6. A surname from Middle English.
   countable, uncountable
7. The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
   Australia, countable, often, uncountable, with-definite-article
8. 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.
9. George H. W. Bush, 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993
   countable, uncountable
10. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
11. An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
    New-Zealand, countable, often, uncountable, with-definite-article
12. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
13. George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009
    countable, uncountable
14. 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.
    historical
15. The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
    Canada, countable, often, uncountable, with-definite-article
16. A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
    slang, vulgar
17. A place name:
    countable, uncountable
18. A village in Williamson County, Illinois, United States; from the surname.
    countable, uncountable
19. The tail, or brush, of a fox.
20. A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
    Canada, countable, uncountable
21. An unincorporated community in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.
    countable, uncountable
22. An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington, United States; from the surname.
    countable, uncountable
23. A hamlet in Bude-Stratton parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SS2307).
    countable, uncountable
24. A hamlet in southern Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO7665).
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“bushes to support pea vines”

“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."”

“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’ proviſion.”

Fanny Hill

“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”

“I think on Saturday I'm gonna find out if red-haired girls have a red bush!”

“Mad terror had scattered them, men, women, and children, through the bush, and they had never returned.”

“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.”

“The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest Australia may have to jettison tracts of the bush unless there is a massive investment in climate-change adaptation and planning.”

“In March 1953, a month after Jeb was born, the Bush family received the devastating news that Robin had leukemia. A local doctor told the Bushes that doctors had never seen a white blood cell count that high and there was nothing they could do for her.”

“When Larissa Santos opened her front door and saw Rachel Bush for the first time, she was immediately flooded with emotions.”

“This means Gore will have to stop dancing away from the question as if the pardon decision were somehow shared with the pardonee. It's time he chose the hard right over the easy wrong answer. (For Bush, it would be an opportunity to demonstrate nonpartisan compassion on a grand scale.)”

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