" bush "

[Noun]  | "bush" | \ ˈbu̇sh \

1: shrub; especially : a low densely branched shrub

2: a close thicket of shrubs suggesting a single plant

3: a large uncleared or sparsely settled area (as in Australia) usually scrub-covered or forested : wilderness —usually used with the

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English bussh, bosch, buissh "woods, thicket, underbrush, shrub, underbrush concealing a hunter or fighter," later forms (probably assimilated to an Anglo-French variant of *buis, bois woodland, wood [the material] with a final hushing consonant) of boske, buske, going back to Old English *busc, going back to Germanic *buska- (perhaps also beside an earlier u-stem *busku-) (whence also Old Saxon -busc in brāmalbusk "bramble bush," Middle Dutch bosch, busch "forest, bunch, bundle," Old High German busc, bosc "shrub, bramble bush, thicket, grove," Old Swedish buske "bush," Old Norse [Norway] buskær, a nickname, probably "the bushy-haired one," Old Icelandic Buski, name for a dog, probably "the bristly one"), of uncertain origin; (sense 2) probably after Dutch bosch in this sense;

  * Note : The Germanic pedigree of *buska- is relatively meager for the early periods. Old English *busc is perhaps evident in the place name Wardebusc, Veardebusc (modern Warboys in Huntingdonshire), attested in tenth-century charters, though Ekwall (Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names) took it as of Scandinavian origin. The Old High German forms are attested only in glosses from the twelfth century or later. An earlier opinion, propounded in Skeat and the Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, was that the Germanic words were borrowed from "Late Latin"; however, Latin boscus "wood, woodland"—the form buscus is less frequent—is not attested before the early eighth century. The genuine depth of Germanic attestation for *buska- and congeners was thoroughly explicated by Johannes Hubschmied in "Romanisch-germanische Wortprobleme I. Zur Geschichte von bois, bûche (mit Berücksichtigung der Ortsnamen)," Vox Romanica, Band 29 (1970), pp. 82-122, 283-302. There now see:ms little question that the etymon is Germanic, and that corresponding Romance words are borrowed from Germanic. Note that beside *busk- a form *bosk- is evident in Middle English and elsewhere, especially Romance. Hubschmied explains *busk- as an outcome in an original u-stem, with *bosk- resulting from lowering before a non-high vowel in the next syllable; alternatively, the -u- could simply result from failure of lowering. Also widespread in Middle English, especially east midland and northern, and in early Scots, are forms without palatalized sk, as bosk(e), buske (compare {bosky|bosky}), which have been attributed both to Old Norse and to Anglo-French bosc. See also {boiserie|boiserie}, {boscage|boscage}, {bosquet|bosquet} and {bouquet|bouquet}, and compare {ambush:1|ambush:1}.;

[Noun]  | "bush" 

1: bushing

Origin: 1566 ;

 Dutch bus bushing, box, from Middle Dutch busse box, from Late Latin buxis{mat|box:1|};

[Noun]  | "bush baby" 

1: any of several small nocturnal arboreal African primates (Galago and related genera of the family Galagidae) with large eyes, long ears, a long tail, and elongated hind limbs that enable them to leap with great agility —called also galago

Origin: 1901 ;

[Noun]  | "bush basil" 

1: a sweet basil of a cultivar with small leaves

Origin: 1597 ;

[Verb]  | "bush" 

1: to support, mark, or protect with bushes

2: to extend like a bush : resemble a bush

Origin: 15th century ;

 Derivative of {see: |bush:1|bush:1};

[Adjective]  | "bush" 

1: having a low-growing compact bushy habit —used especially of cultivated beans

2: serving, occurring in, or used in the bush

Origin: 1595 ;

 From attributive use of {see: |bush:1|bush:1};

[Adjective]  | "bush" 

1: falling below acceptable standards : unprofessional

Origin: 1959 ;

 Short for {see: |bush-league|bush-league};

[Biographical name]  | "Bush" | \ ˈbu̇sh \

1: George (Herbert Walker) 1924—2018 American politician; vice president of the U.S. (1981—89); 41st president of the U.S. (1989—93)

[Biographical name]  | "Bush" 

1: George W(alker) 1946— son of George H. W. Bush American politician; 43rd president of the U.S. (2001—09)

[Biographical name]  | "Bush" 

1: Vannevar 1890—1974 American electrical engineer

[Adjective]  | "bush" 

[Adjective]  | "bush-league" 

[Noun]  | "bush" 

[Noun]  | "bush pilot" 

[Noun]  | "bush pilots" 

[Phrase]  | "beat around the bush" 

[Phrase]  | "beaten around the bush" 

[Phrase]  | "beats around the bush" 

[Phrase]  | "beating around the bush" 

[Verb]  | "beat"