Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Australia A person who frequents the Australian bush or outback, often skilled in camping techniques.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From bush +‎ man.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word bushman.

Examples

  • Only himself, the slain bushman, and what remained of Sagawa, were in the narrow, wild-pig run of a path.

    THE RED ONE 2010

  • Most of my boys are from the bush, and every bushman is a cannibal.

    Chapter 5 2010

  • However your conclusion is correct and even a bushman from the Amazon jungle, unfamiliar with man made objects and manufacturing concepts, could utilize his analytical skills to distinguish an object that had changed or evolved from one that resulted from intelligent input.

    Dawkins on the OOL 2006

  • However your conclusion is correct and even a bushman from the Amazon jungle, unfamiliar with man made objects and manufacturing concepts, could utilize his analytical skills to distinguish an object that had changed or evolved from one that resulted from intelligent input.

    Dawkins on the OOL 2006

  • Only himself, the slain bushman, and what remained of Sagawa were in the narrow wild-pig-run of a path.

    The Red One 1918

  • Only himself, the slain bushman, and what remained of Sagawa, were in the narrow, wild-pig run of a path.

    The Red One 1918

  • 'I see, my dear, that you're idealising Colin McKeith, and let me tell you that a bushman is very far removed from the super-man.

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

  • Most of my boys are from the bush, and every bushman is a cannibal.

    She Would A Planter Be 1911

  • Adirondack "bushman" captured after 20 years in the woods

    Boing Boing 2007

  • And so on and so on, from Allakaket, Alaska (Humanoid Myth: "bushman") to Winter Park, Florida (six cites from Animal ESP to the 1895 Skyquake).

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.