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Bushwah

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective

1
Pronunciation spelling of bourgeois. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
"“These contrary policies are logical for Communists. To them consistency, morality and truthfulness are ‘bushwah’ dope that drugs workers and delays the revolution.”"

Noun

1
Nonsense; euphemistic form of bullshit. US, uncountable
"These plays, one and all, were either sentimental bushwah or tragic nonsense."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Uncertain, first attested in the 1900s. Perhaps from dialectal bodewash (“dried buffalo dung”) or by Etymology 2, from bourgeois. Subsequently used as a minced oath variant of bullshit, though bullshit itself is only attested from the 1910s.

Etymology 2

From bourgeois.

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