bodewash
US/ˈboʊdwɔʃ/
bodewash noun: dried buffalo or cow dung, sometimes used as fuel by pioneers.
Noun
bodewash (uncountable)
- Dried buffalo or cow dung, sometimes used as fuel by pioneers.
- Bodewash. (Fr. bois de vache.) Dried cow-dung, used for fuel on the treeless plains of the Far West.[1877, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms […], 4th edition, page 56
- We therefore gathered a quantity of dry buffalo dung [bois de vache or “bodewash”] with which we made shift to keep the mosquitoes away; our provisions required no cooking.1897, Elliott Coues, Alexander Henry, New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry […], volume 1, pages 305–6
Examples of bodewash in a sentence
- His press-teege is mashed flatter’n a bodewash chip.1925 October 20, William Byron Mowery, “St. Gabriel Zsbyski”, in Adventure, volume 25, number 2, page 174:
- Bodewash warmed many an early Manitoba settler.1998, Canadian Geographic, volume 118, page 29:
Origin of bodewash
Borrowed from Canadian French bois de vache (literally “cow wood”).
Questions about bodewash
- What does bodewash mean?
- Bodewash means dried buffalo or cow dung, sometimes used as fuel by pioneers.
- How do you use bodewash in a sentence?
- His press-teege is mashed flatter’n a bodewash chip.
- What part of speech is bodewash?
- Bodewash is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bodewash?
- Bodewash is pronounced /ˈboʊdwɔʃ/ (US).
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