bushwah

== English == === Pronunciation === === Alternative forms === bushwa === Etymology 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. ==== Noun ==== bushwah (uncountable) (US) Nonsense; euphemistic form of bullshit. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense ===== Translations ===== ==== References ==== === Etymology 2 === From bourgeois. ==== Adjective ==== bushwah Pronunciation spelling of bourgeois.