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bushwa
or bush·wah
[ boosh-wah, -waw ]
/ ˈbʊʃ wɑ, -wɔ /
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noun
rubbishy nonsense; baloney; bull: You'll hear a lot of boring bushwa about his mechanical skill.
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Origin of bushwa
1915–20; perhaps representing bourgeois1, from its use in political rhetoric, the actual sense being lost; taken as euphemism for bullshit
Words nearby bushwa
bush tea, bush telegraph, bush tit, bush tucker, bushveld, bushwa, bushwalking, bushwhack, bushwhacker, bush wren, bushy
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How to use bushwa in a sentence
Those newspaper stories I read—pure bushwa, from beginning to end.
Bear Trap|Alan Edward Nourse