Bush vs Slip - What's the difference?

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Bush is a related term of slip.

As a proper noun bush

is .

As a noun slip is

briefs ; panties.

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 .

* , chapter=1

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes . Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}

(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 ----

slip

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) slype, of uncertain origin.

Noun

(-)

(obsolete) Mud, slime.

(ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.

Etymology 2

Probably from (etyl) slippe or (etyl) slippe. Compare Dutch slip, German Schlippe.

Noun

(en noun)

A twig or shoot; a cutting.

a slip from a vine

(obsolete) A descendant, a scion.

* Shakespeare

a native slip to us from foreign seeds

A young person (now usually with (of) introducing descriptive qualifier).

She couldn't hurt a fly, young slip of a girl that she is.

A long, thin piece of something.

* Tennyson

moonlit slips of silver cloud

A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide.

Derived terms

* pink slip * sales slip

Etymology 3

Apparently from (etyl) slippen (Dutch slippen, German ).

Verb

(slipp)

To lose one's traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.

* {{quote-news

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To err.

* Bible, Eccl. xix. 16

There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart.

To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out'', ''off , etc.

A bone may slip out of place.

To pass (a note, money, etc.) often covertly.

She thanked the porter and slipped a ten-dollar bill into his hand.

To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.

* Arbuthnot

He tried to slip a powder into her drink.

To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.

Some errors slipped into the appendix.

* Prior

Thus one tradesman slips away, / To give his partner fairer play.

* Dryden

Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.

* 1883 ,

We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift

(figuratively) To move down; to slide.

Profits have slipped over the past six months.

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Marc Vesty , title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Cottagers had previously gone eight games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone over Christmas, with boss Hughes criticised by fans after their 3-1 home defeat by fellow basement battlers West Ham on Boxing Day.}}

(falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.

* Shakespeare

Lucento slipped me like his greyhound.

(cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.

(obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.

* Ben Jonson

And slip no advantage / That may secure you.

To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.

to slip a piece of cloth or paper

* Mortimer

The branches also may be slipped and planted.

To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.

A horse slips''' his bridle; a dog '''slips his collar.

To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.

Noun

(en noun)

An act or instance of slipping.

I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.

A women's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress; a shift.

A mistake or error.

a slip of the tongue

* Fuller

This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom.

(nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.

(nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.

(medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.

(cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)

A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.

A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.

* Sir S. Baker

We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips , in search of deer.

An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.

He gave the warden the slip and escaped from the prison.

(Shakespeare)

(printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.

(dated) A child's pinafore.

An outside covering or case.

a pillow slip

the slip or sheath of a sword

(obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.

(Shakespeare)

Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.

A particular quantity of yarn.

(UK, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.

(US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.

(mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.

(Knight)

(engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.

A fish, the sole.

Synonyms

* (a mistake) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, stumble, thinko * (return to previous behaviour) lapse

Derived terms

* (undergarment) full slip, waist slip

Anagrams

* 1000 English basic words ----