bodewash
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Canadian French bois de vache (literally “cow wood”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈboʊdwɔʃ/
Noun
[edit]bodewash (uncountable)
- (US, Canada, dialect, archaic) Dried buffalo or cow dung, sometimes used as fuel by pioneers.
- [1877, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms […], 4th edition, page 56:
- Bodewash. (Fr. bois de vache.) Dried cow-dung, used for fuel on the treeless plains of the Far West.]
- 1897, Elliott Coues, Alexander Henry, New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry […], volume 1, pages 305–6:
- We therefore gathered a quantity of dry buffalo dung [bois de vache or “bodewash”] with which we made shift to keep the mosquitoes away; our provisions required no cooking.
- 1998, Canadian Geographic[1], volume 118, page 29:
- Bodewash warmed many an early Manitoba settler.
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