Bushiest vs Busiest - What's the difference?
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(bush)
(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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, title= (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially'' a woman's; ''loosely , a woman's vulva.
* 1749 , (John Cleland), Memoirs Of Fanny Hill ,
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 787:
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)
(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
* 1726 , '', 1839, Samuel Johnson (editor), ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ,
To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
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 ,
#* 1899 , , (Dot and the Kangaroo) ,
#* 2000 , Robert Holden, Paul Cliff, Jack Bedson, The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood ,
# (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.
The noun "bush", used attributively.
(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
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.
To furnish with a bush or lining.
(busy)
Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
* Shakespeare
Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
Officious; meddling.
* 1603 , , IV. ii. 130:
To make somebody busy , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
* On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
To rush somebody.
A police officer.
As adjectives the difference between bushiest and busiest
is that bushiest is superlative of bush while busiest is superlative of busy.bushiest
English
Adjective
(head)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)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.}}
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.
- But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush .
- If it be true that good wine needs no bush , 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
Synonyms
* (category of woody plant) shrub * See alsoDerived 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 * bushyVerb
(es)page 404,
- Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene.
- to bush peas
- 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)Derived terms
* good wine needs no bushEtymology 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
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.
Gutenberg Australia eBook #0900681h,
- Little Dot had lost her way in the bush .
page 16,
- The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.
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 bushSee also
* backblock, outback * bushman (not derived from bush but separately derived from cognate Dutch)Adjective
(-)- The bush' vote; '''bush''' party; '''bush''' tucker; '''bush''' aristocracy; ' bush tea
Adverb
(-)- On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
Etymology 4
Adjective
(en adjective)- They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush .
Noun
(es)- 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)- (Farrow)
Verb
- to bush a pivot hole
Anagrams
* Australian English ----busiest
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*busy
English
Adjective
(er)- a busy street
- To-morrow is a busy day.
- The director cannot see you now, he's busy .
- Her telephone has been busy all day.
- She is too busy to have time for riddles.
- Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
- I will be hanged if some eternal villain, / Some busy and insinuating rogue, / Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, / Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.