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Bushman (Dutch, Boschjesman)

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Natives of South Africa who live in the “bush”; the aborigines of the Cape; dwellers in the Australian “bush;” a bush farmer.

“Bushmen … . are the only nomades in the country. They never cultivate the soil, nor rear any domestic animal save wretched dogs.”—Livingstone: Travels, chap. ii. p. 55.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bursa (a bull’s hide)
Burst
Bury the Hatchet
Burying
Burying at Cross Roads
Bus
Busby (A)
Busby
Bush
Bushel
Bushman (Dutch, Boschjesman)
Bushrangers
Business, Busy
Business To-morrow
Busirane
Busiris
Buskin
Buss
Busterich
Busy as a Bee
Butcher