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bush week

bush week noun: an imagined or symbolic time when assumedly unsophisticated people from the countryside come to the city, likely to be preyed on by tricksters there, or who are unaware of social norms in the city.

Noun

bush week (plural bush weeks)

  1. (Australia, informal) An imagined or symbolic time when assumedly unsophisticated people from the countryside come to the city, likely to be preyed on by tricksters there, or who are unaware of social norms in the city.
    • What do you think this is, bush week? (= What do you take me for? / Do you think I'm an idiot?)
    • What do you think this is, bush week? (= Why are you not working? / why are you not doing what I asked you to do?)

Forms of bush week

pluralbush weeks

Origin of bush week

Apparently from an actual attempt to organise a Bush Festival in Sydney in 1919; the idea then being extended to the present figurative use.

Questions about bush week

What does bush week mean?
Bush week means an imagined or symbolic time when assumedly unsophisticated people from the countryside come to the city, likely to be preyed on by tricksters there, or who are unaware of social norms in the city.
What part of speech is bush week?
Bush week is a noun.
What is the plural of bush week?
The plural of bush week is bush weeks.

Words near bush week in the dictionary

  1. bush warbler
  2. bush warblers
  3. bush wee
  4. bush weed
  5. bush weeing
  6. bush week
  7. bush weeks
  8. bush wees
  9. bush-balladry
  10. bush-bash
  11. bush-bashed

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