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bushwhack

Postby Bailey » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:21 pm

bush·whack (bshhwk, -wk)
v. bush·whacked, bush·whack·ing, bush·whacks
v.intr.
1. To make one's way through thick woods by cutting away bushes and branches.
2. To travel through or live in the woods.
3. To fight as a guerrilla in the woods.
v.tr.
To attack suddenly from a place of concealment; ambush. See Synonyms at ambush.



bushwhacker n.

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bushwhacker
1809, Amer.Eng., lit. "one who beats the bushes" (to make his way through), perhaps modeled on Du. bosch-wachter "forest keeper." In American Civil War, "irregular who took to the woods" (1862), variously regarded as patriot guerillas or as freebooters.
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I'm trying to reclaim the back forty, cutting down bushes with my Bushwhacker[tm]


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Postby skinem » Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:04 pm

I didn't know it for a fact until I read your post, but "bushwhack" to me always just SOUNDED like an American word. (Don't know why...) Glad to know my ear isn't entirely whacked despite my picture.
Are you using a bushhog to do your bushwhacking? I have to use one about twice a year here to keep the back 40 (or as the neighbors are starting to call it, "Skinem's Wildlife Refuge") from looking like the Amazon.

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Postby sluggo » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:35 am

Oh.
I thought Bushwacking was what Hugo Chávez was doing at the U.N. a coupla weeks ago, talking about when Bush comes to shove...
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Postby gailr » Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:40 am

Thanks, sluggo.
I hate seeing a gimme wasted.
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Postby sluggo » Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:56 am

Thanks, sluggo.
I hate seeing a gimme wasted.
-gailr :lol:
Sumbuddy had to. 'Sides, I wanted to find a way to shove the other pun in.
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Postby Bailey » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:50 am

thanks slug, ma man, I knew someone would make the connecton.

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Postby skinem » Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:47 am

Doh! <me slapping forehead>
I can't believe I missed that one. I'm so darn literal at times-- fail to see the bush because of all the shrubs that need whacking.

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Postby Perry » Sun Oct 01, 2006 2:28 pm

There is a joke with the punchline, "read my lips, no more Bush". If you know it fine. If not too bad; I know that I can't put this one out into mixed company. (Probably not even in a private message.)
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Postby sluggo » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:45 pm

There is a joke with the punchline, "read my lips, no more Bush". If you know it fine. If not too bad; I know that I can't put this one out into mixed company. (Probably not even in a private message.)
Does that even need a joke to set it up?

Skimem, just let's don't fergit the difference between whacking Bush and clearing Brush.

Which for some hopelessly obscure reason reminds me of a statement made by Duane in north Georgia, when my dog and his were exchanging the usual canine sniff-shake. "They's all right", says Duane, "That's how they know who the President is."
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