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Desperado vs Bushranger - What's the difference?

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Desperado is a related term of bushranger.


As nouns the difference between desperado and bushranger

is that desperado is a bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the wild west while bushranger is (australia|historical) a convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.

desperado

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
  • *1850 , (Thomas Carlyle), (Latter-Day Pamphlets)'', ''The present time
    • The kind of persons who excite or give signal to — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes , acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
  • *1918 , (Willa Cather), (My Antonia) , Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6
  • *:Surely this was the face of a desperado .
  • (chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.

    • bushranger

    English

    (wikipedia bushranger)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, historical) A convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.
  • * 1892 , , Fifty Years in the Making of Australian History , Volume 1, page 217,
    • We each discharged a shot in the direction of the explosion by the bushrangers , for we had no other guide in aiming, owing to the night being so very dark, which was rendered denser by the mizzling rain which had been falling all day.
  • * 2003 , Sharon Morgan, Land Settlement in Early Tasmania: Creating an Antipodean England , page 131,
    • The retribution for those who failed to help bushrangers' could be severe. Thomas Kenton was imprisoned in 1825, accused of having allowed Matthew Brady to escape, but was later murdered by the ' bushranger as an informer.28
  • * 2010 , John Hirst, Looking for Australia , page 82,
    • The live-and-let-live attitude hampered the police in tracking bushrangers'. A few squatters like John Walsh gave the '''bushrangers''' active support, but the police were thwarted as much by the unwillingness of landowners generally to report what they knew about the ' bushrangers or to take any active steps against them.
  • (Australia, obsolete) A person skilled in bushcraft.
  • * 1824 , The Australian'', quoted in 1966, Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language , 2nd edition, chapter II section 2, page 31,
    • Mr Hovell lacks all the qualities befitting a bushranger .