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bush
noun- pubic hair, especially a woman’s pubic hair UK, 1650
A source for endless punning during the US presidential election of 2000; President Bush Jr’s lack of gravitas opened him up to “bush” puns to an extent that his father did not have to endure. - He reached down and pulled her pubic hair. WHATTA BUSH. — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 249, 1957
- The liberated chick up front appears not to be wearing any underwear and the print reveals what might be construed by some as a hairy bush. — Screw, p. 8, 4 April 1969
- That’s how you tell if a broad dyes her hair, look at her bush. — Elmore Leonard, Split Image, p. 191, 1981
- And then Jayne Kennedy says, “First things first, nigger, I ain’t suckin’ shit till you bring your ass over here an’ lick my bush!” — True Romance, 1993
- Bob waxed Renee’s bush with a giant vibrator that looked like a cross between a minivac and a shoe polisher. — Anka Radakovich, The Wild Girls Club, p. 117, 1994
- JACK: What’re you doing? We’re shooting in twenty minutes. BECKY: I’m shaving my bush. — Boogie Nights, 1997
- I always figured that, you know, everyone had a bush. It wasn’t specifically female. — Jabberrock [quoting Gavin Rossdale of the band Bush, 1995], p. 187, 1997
- I’m surprised they didn’t just explode the moment they glimpsed a bit of bush. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 29, 2001
- Dude–she had seventies bush. — Kevin Smith, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, p. 30, 2001
- Know what the biggest change is for me? Broads shavin’ their bushes. I went over to Silvio’s, it’s like the Girl Scouts in there. — The Sopranos (Episode 53), 2004
- a sexually active female US
- — Andy Anonymous, A Basic Guide to Campusology, p. 5, 1966
- a bushy hairstyle, especially on a black person US
- — David Claerbaut, Black Jargon in White America, p. 59, 1972
- marijuana US, 1951
- As soon as we got some of that Mexican bush we almost blew our tops. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 215, 1946
- Byron smoked too much potiguaya bush for a lunger. “I was born to smoke bush,” he boasted. — Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side, p. 14, 1956
- We’ve caned some bush in our time but nowt like that. — Shaun Ryder, Shaun Ryder... in His Own Words, 1991
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 32, 1996
- I licked my fingers, and took hold of the bag of bush that Sundays had tossed over to me. The bush was in fine, grainy pieces[.] — Diran Adebayo, My Once Upon A Time, p. 20, 2000
- I got stoned on some really good bush[.] — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 52, 2000
- cocaine UK, 1998
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 280, 2003
- the woods US
- “What are yez doin tonight?” “We’re gettin some kortz and goin upda bush.” — Amy and Denise McFadden, CoalSpeak, pp. 2–3, 1997
- the suburbs AUSTRALIA, 1942
An urban sneer; from the conventional Australian sense of “bush” (country in its natural state).
▶ go bush
to move to or visit the country AUSTRALIA, 1916- I’ve decided to go bush and sort myself out. — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 76, 1969
- I’ve heard stories about men who escaped the prisons. Went bush. Went cannibal. — Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank, Mad Dog Morgan, p. 82, 1976
- He beat the beast to the end of the shed by a short head, shot around the corner, and the beast flew straight past and went bush. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 53, 1979
- After that I went bush with my oldest daughter, Pat, and worked around Quilpie for a while[.] — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 104, 1994
▶ make bush
to escape from prison US- — Rose Giallombardo, Society of Women, p. 210, 1966: Glossary of Prison Terms
▶ take the bush; take to the bush
to escape; to run wild; to leave the town for the country AUSTRALIA, 1804
Originally of escaping convicts; but also carrying the sense of an Aborigine returning to traditional life. |