bushwa

or bush·wah

[ boosh-wah, -waw ]

noun

1. rubbishy nonsense; baloney; bull:

   You'll hear a lot of boring bushwa about his mechanical skill.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bushwa¹

1915–20; perhaps representing bourgeois ¹, from its use in political rhetoric, the actual sense being lost; taken as euphemism for bullshit

Example Sentences

Those newspaper stories I read—pure bushwa, from beginning to end.

From Project Gutenberg