bush

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
3. 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.
4. (slang) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
5. The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Verb

1. To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
2. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
3. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
4. To become bushy (often used with up).

Adv

Towards the direction of the outback.

Adj

Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

Verb

To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bʊʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English bush, from Old English busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”).
Cognate with West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest”), German Busch (“bush”), Danish and Norwegian busk (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic. The sense 'pubic hair' was first attested in 1745.