bushwah

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Nonsense; euphemistic form of bullshit. US,uncountable
    — These plays, one and all, were either sentimental bushwah or tragic nonsense.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pronunciation spelling of bourgeois. alt-of,pronunciation-spelling
    — “These contrary policies are logical for Communists. To them consistency, morality and truthfulness are ‘bushwah’ dope that drugs workers and delays the revolution.”

词源

词源 1
Uncertain, first attested in the 1900s. Perhaps from dialectal bodewash (“dried buffalo dung”) or by Etymology 2, from bourgeois. Subsequently used as a minced oath variant of bullshit, though bullshit itself is only attested from the 1910s.
词源 2
From bourgeois.
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