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Bushman

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback. Australia

    "To A. B. Paterson, son of a dispossessed squatter, writing from a city office, the bushmen with their horses and simple skills were the backbone of Australia."

  2. 2
    A person who lives in the bush, especially a member of a community or ethnic group who lives in the bush.
  3. 3
    nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa wordnet
  4. 4
    A member of one of the foraging ethnic groups native to southwestern Africa, mostly the Kalahari. offensive, sometimes
  5. 5
    a male dweller in the Australian bush country wordnet

Etymology

From bush + -man.

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