bush

bush
bush (n.) "many-stemmed woody plant," O.E. bysc, from W.Gmc. *busk "bush, thicket" (Cf. Du. bos, Ger. Busch). Influenced by or combined with cognate words from Scandinavian (Cf. Dan. busk) and O.Fr. (busche "firewood," apparently of Frankish origin), and also perhaps Anglo-Latin bosca "firewood," from M.L. busca (whence It. bosco, Sp. bosque-, Fr. bois), which apparently also was borrowed from West Germanic; Cf. BOISE (Cf. Boise).
In British colonies, applied to the uncleared districts, hence "country," as opposed to town (1780); probably from Du. bosch, in the same sense, since it seems to appear first in former Dutch colonies. Meaning "pubic hair" (especially of a woman) is from 1745. To beat the bushes (mid-15c.) is a way to rouse birds so that they fly into the net which others are holding, which originally was the same thing as beating around the bush (see BEAT (Cf. beat)).

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