Etymology

bushwah

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Today it means: Nonsense; euphemistic form of bullshit. Full definition →

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bushwah · noun1

Uncertain, first attested in the 1900s. Perhaps from dialectal bodewash (“dried buffalo dung”) or by Etymology 2, from bourgeois. Subsequently used as a minced oath variant of bullshit, though bullshit itself is only attested from the 1910s.

bushwah · adjective2

From bourgeois.

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