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bushwah

Bushwah (noun) means Nonsense; euphemistic form of bullshit.

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Nonsense; euphemistic form of bullshit.
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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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"bushwah" (noun) means nonsense; euphemistic form of bullshit.

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