Definitions for bushed

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bushed bushed

Spelling: [boo sht]

IPA: /bʊʃt/

Bushed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in bushed (bdehsu).

Definitions for bushed

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).

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. overgrown with bushes.
2. Informal. exhausted; tired out:
3. Canadian Informal. mentally unbalanced as a result of prolonged residence in a sparsely inhabited region.
4. Australian and New Zealand Slang. unable to find one's direction; lost; confused.
5. 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 bushed

First recorded in 1485-95; bush¹ + -ed², -ed³

Examples for bushed

Shane said, "Remember the time I 'bushed' you over in Dunlap's meadow?"

I'm not coming back till I find my little 'un that's bushed in this mallee.'

Where by accident the perforation has become enlarged at the end, it has been bushed by setting in a small piece of shell.

All peas, for picking while green, are more convenient when bushed.

Once, when I had gone out parrot-potting, with another young fellow almost as green as myself, we had very nearly got bushed.

All other peas had better be bushed, that they may be easily picked, and that the later ones may mature.

Nevertheless, we fell into the disgrace (to an Australian Jehu) of being "bushed" that night.

I agreed, but told him that I couldn't find the way and should get 'bushed' if I tried.

The big ends are lined with white metal and the small ends are bushed with phosphor bronze.

See that the cloth, with which the hole is bushed, is not loose and wrinkled.