bushman
/bˈʊʃmən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.48 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.
Australian usage
noun
A person who lives in the bush, especially a member of a community or ethnic group who lives in the bush.
noun
A member of one of the foraging ethnic groups native to southwestern Africa, mostly the Kalahari.
Offensive
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: bushcrafter"
- "An occasional Afghan makes a good bushman. These rare birds, with the help of natives, found that by winding in and out over the soft ground of the valleys they could bring a camel-train where no wheeled transport could go."
- "To A. B. Paterson, son of a dispossessed squatter, writing from a city office, the bushmen with their horses and simple skills were the backbone of Australia."
- "Its^([the Bulletin's]) writers shaped ‘a group myth about Australians and their destiny’; in the absence of conventional heroes, visiting the past to claim the bushman as the first ‘Australian’, the anti-hero in the struggles against empire."
- "Later, historian Russel Ward (1958) famously identified the outback bushman as the “typical” Australian – a rugged individualist, courageous and loyal to his mates."
Etymology
Etymology tree English bush Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English bushman From bush + -man.