bushman

See also: Bushman

English

Etymology

From bush +‎ -man.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bushman (plural bushmen)

1. (Australia) A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.
   • 1970, Douglas Pike, Australia: The Quiet Continent‎, page 230:

     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.

   • 2000, Donald Denoon, Philippa Mein Smith, Marivic Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, page 214:

     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.

   • 2010, Susan Lawrence, Peter Davies, An Archaeology of Australia Since 1788, page 117:

     Later, historian Russel Ward (1958) famously identified the outback bushman as the “typical” Australian – a rugged individualist, courageous and loyal to his mates.

Coordinate terms

• bushwoman

Derived terms

• bushman grass
• bushman poison
• bushman's breakfast
• bushmanship

 

Translations

Translations

Finnish: eränkävijä (fi) French: broussard (fr) Maori: waoko

See also

• bus kanaka