bushwa

Or bush·wah

[boosh-wah, -waw]

noun

1. rubbishy nonsense; baloney; bull.

   You'll hear a lot of boring bushwa about his mechanical skill.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bushwa¹

1915–20; perhaps representing bourgeois ¹, from its use in political rhetoric, the actual sense being lost; taken as euphemism for bullshit

Example Sentences

And down is left and up is sideways and monkeys drive rainbow-powered cars and flowers sing reggae and yada, yada, yada, Republicans and their media henchmen shoveling diversionary bushwa by the metric ton.

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In its first season, “True Detective” cultivated a delirious murder-mystery psychosphere, flirted with gross and engrossing conspiracy theories, elevated buddy-cop banter to an entertaining level of existential bushwa, embodied the McConaissance—then shrivelled to a grotesque whodunnit, in an unaccountably uplifting season finale.

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The script, which Mr. Miller wrote with Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris, has been whittled almost clean of expository dialogue and touchy-feely bushwa.

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Mikulski objects to what she characterizes as this "fully briefed" bushwa.

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Despite a make-believe perspective on feminism amounting to a lot of Simone de Bushwa, the show doesn’t very often ask to be taken seriously.

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