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单词 bushman
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bushmann.

Brit. /ˈbʊʃmən/, U.S. /ˈbʊʃmən/
Etymology: < bush n.1 9 + man n.1, apparently originally after Dutch boschjesman applied by the Dutch colonists in South Africa to the Khoisan peoples living in the ‘bush’; and since extended in application.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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