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Provincial vs Bushie - What's the difference?

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Provincial is a related term of bushie.


As nouns the difference between provincial and bushie

is that provincial is a person belonging to a province; one who is provincial while bushie is (au|colloquial) someone who lives or spends a lot of time in the bush; a bushman.

As an adjective provincial

is of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

provincial

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
  • Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
  • * ,
  • Provincial airs and graces.
  • Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
  • * Ayliffe,
  • Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
  • (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
  • * ,
  • With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
  • limited in outlook; narrow
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  • (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 700:
  • The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
  • A country bumpkin.
  • ----

    bushie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (AU, colloquial) Someone who lives or spends a lot of time in the bush; a bushman.
  • * 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 184:
  • I bought the king parrot from an old bushie in a pub in Exhibition Street.