noun
bushwah
Bushwah (noun) means (informal) Nonsense; a polite way of saying rubbish.
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(informal) Nonsense; a polite way of saying rubbish.
"Oftentimes proof is only in the speaking, but the people listening are pros with tremendous experience in flight, and they can pick out the bushwah instantly."
— Martin Caidin, Ghosts of the Air: True Stories of Aerial Hauntings (1991)
"These plays, one and all, were either sentimental bushwah or tragic nonsense."
— George Jean Nathan, The Autobiography of an Attitude (1925)
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Etymology
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.
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What is the meaning of bushwah?
"bushwah" (noun) means (informal) Nonsense; a polite way of saying rubbish.
What is another word for bushwah?
Other words for "bushwah" include baloney, absurdity, bafflegab, balderdash, applesauce, baragouin.
