bush
Forms
- Plural
- bushes
- present (v1)
- bush
- past (v2)
- bushed
- past participle (v3)
- bushed
- present participle
- bushing
- 3rd person singular
- bushes
Definitions
1.A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
2.A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
3.A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.(slang)
- I think on Saturday I'm gonna find out if red-haired girls have a red bush!
- I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue.
- But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush.
4.The tail, or brush, of a fox.
1.To become bushy (often used with up).
- I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.
2.To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
- Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene.
3.To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
4.To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4291
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English bush, from Old English *busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque.
Cognates