Definitions for bushbuck

bushbuck bush·buck

Spelling: [boo sh-buhk]
IPA: /ˈbʊʃˌbʌk/

Bushbuck is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in bushbuck (bbchksuu).

Definitions for bushbuck

noun

  1. a large African antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus, of wooded and bushy regions, having a reddish body streaked or spotted with white.

Origin of bushbuck

1850-55; Afrikaans bosbok, earlier boschbok, equivalent to bos bush1 + bok buck1

Examples for bushbuck

They had left the main body to get up a bushbuck hunt on the banks of the Bashi.

He said to the bushbuck, "Can I take this little piece of meat?"

But since the incident at the wind-up of the bushbuck hunt the estrangement had widened.

He went to a place where he found a bushbuck (imbabala) building a hut.

Then he took the skin of the bushbuck, and made for himself a mantle.

bushbuck, waterbuck, and lots of other herbivora appeared, but no carnivora.

"Oh, he is very cunning," answered the bushbuck, and ran off.

He had taken to so nicknaming Edala since the bushbuck hunt and she seemed rather to like it.

Afterwards he whistled in a particular manner, and there fell a storm of hail which killed the bushbuck.

"Hartebeest, bushbuck and antelope," replied the explorer calmly.

Word Value for bushbuck
Scrable

21

Words with friends

25

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