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bodewash noun dry buffalo dung CANADA The word is an adaptation of the French bois de vache (cow wood).- If I hadn’t heard that crack, we’d all be dead right now! Mashed flatter than a bodewash chip! — William Mowery, Tales of the Mounted Police, p. 76, 1953
- In the pre-railway days every traveller on the plains used bois des vaches (buffalo droppings) as fuel, filling it into sacks whenever they found it. — B.C. Digest, p. 51/1, November–December 1963
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