bushwa
or bush·wah
[boo sh-wah, -waw]
- 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
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Word Origin and History for bushwa
n.
also bushwah, 1920, U.S. slang, euphemistic for bullshit.
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