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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.



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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
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Example Sentences

Bushwa, of course, but it was and is that way for me and so I found some sled dogs.

And down is left and up is sideways and monkeys drive rainbow-powered cars and flowers sing reggae and yada, yada, yada, Republicans and their media henchmen shoveling diversionary bushwa by the metric ton.

In its first season, “True Detective” cultivated a delirious murder-mystery psychosphere, flirted with gross and engrossing conspiracy theories, elevated buddy-cop banter to an entertaining level of existential bushwa, embodied the McConaissance—then shrivelled to a grotesque whodunnit, in an unaccountably uplifting season finale.

The script, which Mr. Miller wrote with Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris, has been whittled almost clean of expository dialogue and touchy-feely bushwa.

Mikulski objects to what she characterizes as this "fully briefed" bushwa.

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