bushwah
bushwah noun: nonsense; euphemistic form of bullshit. Also the pronunciation spelling of bourgeois.
Noun
bushwah (uncountable)
- Nonsense; euphemistic form of bullshit.
- These plays, one and all, were either sentimental bushwah or tragic nonsense.1925, George Jean Nathan, The Autobiography of an Attitude, page 230
- This death or glory stuff is all bushwah, except with nuts; and those, you don’t want. An outfit of smart guys, always trying to figure the opposition before the opposition figures them; they can take, any time, any day, an outfit of nuts wound up to crash their planes into something.1948, James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor, page 258
- Synonyms:
- absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil
Also used as
bushwah is also the pronunciation spelling of bourgeois.
Synonyms of bushwah
- absurdity
- all my eye
- all my eye and Betty Martin
- bafflegab
- balderdash
- balls
- baloney
- Bandini
- baragouin
- batcrap
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Origin of bushwah
Uncertain, first attested in the 1900s. Perhaps from dialectal bodewash (“dried buffalo dung”) or by Etymology 2, from bourgeois. Subsequently used as a minced oath variant of bullshit, though bullshit itself is only attested from the 1910s.
From bourgeois.
Questions about bushwah
- What does bushwah mean?
- Bushwah means nonsense; euphemistic form of bullshit.
- What part of speech is bushwah?
- Bushwah is a noun.
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