单词 | bushman |
释义 | bushmann. 1. a. With capital initial. A member of a people of Southern Africa; = San n. 1.The Dutch forms Bosjesman, Boschjesman, also occur as ethnic names. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > Bushmen > person buschie1731 bushman1785 earthman1852 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope I. v. 197 There is another species of Hottentots, who have got the name of Boshees-men, from dwelling in woody or mountainous places. 1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. 64 For our mutual safety and defence..against the Bushmen. 1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 513 Considering the Bushmen, or Bosjesmen, of South Africa as the most degraded and miserable of all nations. 1845 Foreign Quart. Rev. XXXIV. 421 Stunted representatives of humanity..under the name of Bushmen. b. The language of the San (Bushman) people of South Africa; = San n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Khoisan > [noun] > Bushman bushman1869 San1967 1869 W. H. I. Bleek in R. Noble Cape & its People 277 Many nouns in Bushman vary in their terminations according to their position or use. 1869 W. H. I. Bleek in R. Noble Cape & its People 278 The Bushman nouns do not appear to possess any representative parts. 1874 J. M. Orpen in Folklore (1919) 30 146 Then he sent another bird, the tinktinki, or tintinyane,—qinqininyq in Bushman. 1960 Times 31 May (S. Afr. Suppl.) p. xv/4 Afrikaans also borrowed from..the Hottentot and Bushman tongues. 2. A person who lives or travels in the Australian or New Zealand ‘bush’; a bush-farmer; a station-hand; a teamster who carries stores to the stations. Also: a person who fells timber. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of bushboya1834 Melbournite1838 Melburnian1838 bushman1846 Vandemonian1852 scrubber1859 Queenslander1860 Victorian1862 Sydneysider1865 Centralian1875 Waler1880 Territorian1882 mutton-bird1892 bushy1896 sand-groper1896 tothersider1896 crow-eater1899 Bananalander1900 outbacker1900 Tassie1905 groper1924 Tasmanian1934 mutton-bird eater1941 Top-Ender1941 Kanakalander1945 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman wood-hewerc1000 wooderc1050 hagger1294 wood-hagger1294 feller1422 woodman1426 faller1614 wood-maker1616 forest-feller1618 axeman1671 holt-felstera1678 stocker1686 bayman1715 logger1734 wood-cutter1758 lumberer1809 lumbermana1817 shantyman1824 chopper1827 splitter1841 bushman1846 mahogany cutter1850 piner1871 bush-faller1882 lumberjack1888 bushwhacker1898 home guard1903 Jack1910 gyppo1912 timber-getter1912 timberjack1916 timber beast1919 1846 N.Z. Jrnl. 6 274/1 E Kehu, our guide, is thus a perfect bushman, and is of very great service on an expedition. 1848 T. Brunner Jrnl. Exped. Middle Island 360 I have now acquired the two greatest requisites for bushmen in New Zealand, viz., the capability of walking barefoot, and the proper method of cooking and eating fern root. 1849 S. C. Brees Guide & Descr. N.Z. 29 This tree [sc. Titoki] is tall..and the wood..is prized by the bushmen for axe-handles. 1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 72 522 Where the wild bushman eats his loathly fare. 1856 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 23 742 An experienced bushman and well mounted. 1867 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) xxi. 180 The ‘bushmen’—as the men who had bought 20 acre sections and settled in the bush are called—had scattered English grass-seed. 1880 Chambers's Jrnl. 4 Dec. 774 Crowds of Bushmen, as those who live in the interior are called by their brethren of the coast. 1916 G. Thornton Wowser xii. 189 These bushmen.. lead a very different life from that of the woodcutters and sawyers (although they too are called bushmen) employed at a saw-mill. 1961 B. Crump Hang on a Minute Mate (1963) 32 Just find out if he wants a couple of experienced bushmen. Compounds Bushman grass n. any of various South African grasses, esp. species of Aristida and Stipa. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > African sour grass1801 tambouki grass1837 stickgrass1838 pypgrass1854 Bushman grass1857 twa-grass1857 tambotie grass1866 rooigras1875 steekgras1890 Napier grass1920 1789 W. Paterson Narr. Four Journeys Country of Hottentots 63 Here I found many new species of Gramina, particularly that which the Dutch call Boshman's Grass, from the use made of it by that people, who eat the seed of it.] 1857 A. Wyley Rep. Min. Struct. Namaqualand App. 44 There the various kinds of Bushman grass prevail, almost to the exclusion of every other plant. 1886 G. A. Farini Through Kalahari Desert 448 Bushman grass, the best that grows on the Kalahari. 1915 R. Marloth Flora S. Afr. IV. 19 Stipa (bushman grass). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1785 |
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