| 单词 |
bushwa |
| 释义 |
bushwa, -wah N. Amer. slang.|ˈbʊʃwɑː|
Also booshwa(h), bushwha.
[app. a euphemism for bullshit.]
Rubbish, nonsense. Also attrib.
1920in Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. 1921J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers (1922) iv. 215 Can't do anything without getting a general order about it. Looks to me like it's all bushwa. 1924Chicago Tribune 1 Oct. 25/8 The Bull, the Glad Hand, the Old Oil, and Il Bushwa. 1932Amer. Speech VII. 329 Booshwah, nonsense. 1932J. Dos Passos 1919 162 They said this war-talk was a lot of bushwa propaganda. 1934J. O'Hara Appt. Samarra (1935) vi. 164 ‘Oh, bushwah on you,’ said Irma. 1936Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 4) vi. 301 The college boys and girls launched bushwah..and a number of other thinly disguised shockers. 1949E. F. Russell in E. Crispin Best SF (1962) 205 ‘Certain of them may have secret knowledge...’ ‘Bushwa!’ defined Queth, unhesitatingly. 1959‘J. R. Macdonald’ Galton Case (1960) x. 83 If you're a detective, what was all that bushwa about Hollywood and Sunset Boulevard? |
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