Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The manager or overseer of an estate in Jamaica.
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Examples
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Along behind him came my busha . . . in her cotton housedress and apron.
Archive 2010-03-01 Casey 2010
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Along behind him came my busha . . . in her cotton housedress and apron.
Help the Honeybee! Casey 2010
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? gary busha | a celebration for whitman
gary busha | a celebration for whitman « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Technorati Tags: busha browne, food, hot sauce, scotch bonnet pepper
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? gary busha | gone fishing with …
gary busha | gone fishing with… « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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If an apprentice laughs or sings, and the busha represents it to the magistrate as insolence, he _feels it his duty_ to make an example of the offender!
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Still the busha was very hard to them, and many of the apprentices run away to the woods, they are so badly used.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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The busha would then send word to the Governor that the people had given up their children, not being able to support them, and the Governor would have the children bound to the busha, "and _then_," said they, "_we might whistle for our children_!"
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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When they were shivering on the ground, the negroes would often lend them their blankets, saying, "Poor _busha pickaninny_ sent out here from England to die."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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"If busha say flog em, he flog em; if busha say send them to the treadmill, he send em."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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