Definitions for Bush

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Bush bush

Spelling: [boo sh]

IPA: /bʊʃ/

Bush is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Bush (bhsu).

Definitions for Bush

noun

1. a low plant with many branches that arise from or near the ground.
2. a small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant.
3. something resembling or suggesting this, as a thick, shaggy head of hair.
4. Also called bush lot. Canadian. a small, wooded lot, especially a farm lot with trees left standing to provide firewood, fence posts, etc.
5. the tail of a fox; brush.
6. Geography. a stretch of uncultivated land covered with mixed plant growth, bushy vegetation, trees, etc.
7. a large uncleared area thickly covered with mixed plant growth, trees, etc., as a jungle.
8. a large, sparsely populated area most of which is uncleared, as areas of Australia and Alaska.
9. a tree branch hung as a sign before a tavern or vintner's shop.
10. any tavern sign.
11. Slang: Vulgar. pubic hair.
12. Archaic. a wineshop.
13. a lining of metal or the like set into an orifice to guard against wearing by friction, erosion, etc.
14. bushing (def 2).
15. Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
16. George (Herbert Walker) born 1924, U.S. politician: vice president 1981–89; 41st president of the U.S. 1989–93.
17. his son, George W(alker) ("Dubya") born 1946, U.S. businessman and politician: governor of Texas 1994–2001; 43rd president of the U.S. 2001–09.
18. Vannevar [vuh-nee-vahr,, -ver] /vəˈni vɑr,, -vər/ (Show IPA), 1890–1974, U.S. electrical engineer: education and research administrator.

Idioms

1. beat around / about the bush, to avoid coming to the point; delay in approaching a subject directly:
2. beat the bushes, to scout or search for persons or things far and wide:
3. go bush, Australian. to flee or escape into the bush. Slang. to become wild.

adjective

1. bush-league.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover, protect, support, or mark with a bush or bushes.
2. to furnish with a bush; line with metal.

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become bushy; branch or spread as or like a bush.

Origin of Bush

before 1000; Middle English busshe, Old English busc (in place-names); cognate with Dutch bos wood, German Busch, Old Norse buskr bush

Examples for Bush

"That is all," said at last the mere Gabet, as she hung the last napkins on a bush.

To those who agreed with him, bush pledged that the law against same-sex marriage would remain intact.

There they stood, one bush after another: it looked like a great garden.

“The institution of marraige [sic] is under attack in our society and it needs to be strengthened,” bush wrote.

She danced around it, she repeated constantly: "This bush is like me; it is like me!"

A few days later, bush replied, “We will uphold the law in Florida.”

I am a second Moses and you are going to be my burning bush.

I thought I had a glimpse of something behind that thick bush.

Meanwhile, in Florida, bush was flooded with questions about whether gay marriage could possibly come to the Sunshine State.

bush busy engaging constituents on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate ahead of the 2004 presidential election.