Bush vs Bushel - What's the difference?

In colloquial terms the difference between bush and bushel

is that bush is not skilled; not professional; not major league while bushel is a large indefinite quantity.

As nouns the difference between bush and bushel

is that bush is a woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category while bushel is a dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons (36.4 L), or thirty-two quarts.

As a verb bush

is to branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

As an adjective bush

is the noun "bush", used attributively.

As an adverb bush

is towards the direction of the outback.

As a proper noun Bush

is {{surname|from=Middle English}.

bush

English

(wikipedia bush)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) busch, busshe, from (etyl) busc, , (etyl) bois and buisson, (etyl) bosco and boscaglia, (etyl) bosque, (etyl) bosque) derive from the Germanic. The sense 'pubic hair' was first attested in 1745.

Noun

(es)

(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category .

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(slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially'' a woman's; ''loosely , a woman's vulva.

* 1749 , (John Cleland), Memoirs Of Fanny Hill , Gutenberg eBook #25305,

As he stood on one side, unbuttoning his waistcoat and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greasy landscape lay fairly open to my view; a wide open mouthed gap, overshaded with a grizzly bush , seemed held out like a beggar?s wallet for its provision.

* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 787:

But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush .

A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.

A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.

* (William Shakespeare)

If it be true that good wine needs no bush , 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

Synonyms

* (category of woody plant) shrub * See also

Derived terms

* a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush * beat about the bush/beat around the bush * bush airline * bush fire * bush frog * bushlike * bushly * bush telegraph * bushy

Verb

(es)

To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.

* 1726 , '', 1839, Samuel Johnson (editor), ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. , page 404,

Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene.

To set bushes for; to support with bushes.

to bush peas

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

to bush''' a piece of land; to '''bush seeds into the ground

Etymology 2

From the sign of a bush usually employed to indicate such places.

Noun

(es)

(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.

Derived terms

* good wine needs no bush

Etymology 3

From (etyl) bosch'' (modern ''bos'') ("''wood, forest "), first appearing in the Dutch colonies to designate an uncleared district of a colony, and thence adopted in British colonies as bush.

Noun

Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.

# (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely , areas of natural flora even within conurbations.

#* 1894 , (Henry Lawson), We Called Him “Ally” for Short'', ''Short Stories in Prose and Verse , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607911,

I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in the bush between here and Perth.

#* 1899 , , (Dot and the Kangaroo) , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0900681h,

Little Dot had lost her way in the bush .

#* 2000 , Robert Holden, Paul Cliff, Jack Bedson, The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood , page 16,

The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.

# (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.

# (Canadian) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.

(Canadian) A woodlot or on a farm.

Derived terms

* Alaskan bush * bush ague * bushbaby * bush aircraft * bush airline * bush bread * bush buggy * bush camp * bush clearing * bush coat * bush company * bush country * bush cowboy * bushcraft * bushcraft * bush-crew * bushed * bush fever * bush fire * bush flier, bush flyer * bush flying * bush-French * bush gang * bush horse * bush Indian * bushland * bush lawyer * bush lore * bush lot * bush mail * (Canadian) bushman * bushmark * bush meat, bushmeat * bush partridge * bush party * bush people * bush pilot * bush plane * bush-pop * bush-popper * bush rabbit * bush ranch * bush ranching * bush-range * bushranger, bush-ranger * bush rat * bush road * bush-rover * bush-runner * bush searcher * bush tavern * bush tea * bush trail * bush tucker * bush week * bushwhack * bushwhacker * bushwhacking * bush-whisky * bushwork * bushworker * go bush * sugar bush * take to the bush

Adjective

(-)

The noun "bush", used attributively.

The bush' vote; '''bush''' party; '''bush''' tucker; '''bush''' aristocracy; ' bush tea

Adverb

(-)

(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.

On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.

Etymology 4

Adjective

(en adjective)

(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush .

Noun

(es)

(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"

The way that pitcher showed up the batter after the strikeout was bush .

Etymology 5

From (etyl) busse 'box; wheel bushing', from (etyl) .

Noun

(es)

A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal (also bushing).

A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.

A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.

(Farrow)

Verb

To furnish with a bush or lining.

to bush a pivot hole

Anagrams

* Australian English ----

bushel

English

(wikipedia bushel)

Noun

(en noun)

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons (36.4 L), or thirty-two quarts.

The Winchester bushel, formerly used in England, contained 2150.42 cubic inches, being the volume of a cylinder 181/2 inches in internal diameter and eight inches in depth. The standard bushel measures, prepared by the United States Government and distributed to the States, hold each 77.6274 pounds of distilled water, at 39.8° Fahr. and 30 inches atmospheric pressure, being the equivalent of the Winchester bushel. The imperial bushel now in use in England is larger than the Winchester bushel, containing 2218.2 cubic inches, or 80 pounds of water at 62° Fahr.

* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 207:

The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.

A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark IV:

And he sayde unto them: is the candle lighted, to be put under a busshell , or under the borde: ys it not therfore lighted that it shulde be put on a candelsticke?

A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.

In the United States a large number of articles, bought and sold by the bushel, are measured by weighing, the number of pounds that make a bushel being determined by State law or by local custom. For some articles, as apples, potatoes, etc., heaped measure is required in measuring a bushel.

(colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.

The iron lining in the nave of a wheel. [Eng.] In the United States it is called a box.

Derived terms

* hide one's light under a bushel