Bush-tucker
noun (Austral)
any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
cooking based around ingredients taken from the Australian wilderness
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- Bushwhack
to make one’s way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc. to travel through woods. to pull a boat upstream from on board by grasping bushes, rocks, etc., on the shore. to fight as a bushwhacker or guerrilla in the bush. to fight as a bushwhacker; ambush. to defeat, especially by surprise or in […]
- Bushwhacker
a person or thing that bushwhacks. (in the American Civil War) a guerrilla, especially a Confederate. any guerrilla or outlaw. Australian Slang. an unsophisticated person; hick. noun (US & Canadian, Austral) a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands (Austral, informal) an unsophisticated person; boor a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil […]
- Bushwhacking
to make one’s way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc. to travel through woods. to pull a boat upstream from on board by grasping bushes, rocks, etc., on the shore. to fight as a bushwhacker or guerrilla in the bush. to fight as a bushwhacker; ambush. to defeat, especially by surprise or in […]
- Bush-wren
noun a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae See also rifleman (sense 2) Historical Examples McClure’s Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various
- Bush-bash
verb (Austral, slang) (intransitive) to clear scrubland to drive through thick scrubland