A.Word.A.Day --bushwa

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Oct 18, 2016

This week’s theme
Words that appear to be coined after someone (but aren’t)

This week’s words
ruminate
bushwa
obambulate
trumpery
hilarity

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with Anu Garg

PRONUNCIATION:

(BUSH-wa)

MEANING:

noun: Nonsense; bull.

ETYMOLOGY:

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a mispronunciation of bourgeois. Earliest documented use: 1920.

USAGE:

“There ain’t no Santa Claus ... It’s all bushwa.”
Sam Ross; Melov’s Legacy; Permanent Press; 1984.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. -Isadora James

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