bushranger
bushranger noun: a convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.
Noun
bushranger (plural bushrangers)
- A convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.
- We each discharged a shot in the direction of the explosion by the bushrangers, for we had no other guide in aiming, owing to the night being so very dark, which was rendered denser by the mizzling rain which had been falling all day.1892, Henry Parkes, Fifty Years in the Making of Australian History, volume 1, page 217
- The retribution for those who failed to help bushrangers could be severe. Thomas Kenton was imprisoned in 1825, accused of having allowed Matthew Brady to escape, but was later murdered by the bushranger as an informer.²⁸2003, Sharon Morgan, Land Settlement in Early Tasmania: Creating an Antipodean England, page 131
- A person skilled in bushcraft.
- Mr Hovell lacks all the qualities befitting a bushranger.1824, The Australian, quoted in 1966, Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, 2nd edition, chapter II section 2, page 31
Forms of bushranger
| plural | bushrangers |
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Origin of bushranger
From bush + ranger.
Questions about bushranger
- What does bushranger mean?
- Bushranger means a convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.
- What part of speech is bushranger?
- Bushranger is a noun.
- What is the plural of bushranger?
- The plural of bushranger is bushrangers.
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