bushe

See also: bǔshè and bùshè

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English bush, from Old English busċ, from Proto-West Germanic *busk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːʃ/

Noun

bushe (plural busheen)

1. bush
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 106:

     Beteesh a kraaneberry-bushe an a ellena-ghou.

     Between the gooseberry-bush and the elder-tree.

   • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 108:

     Hea shet his heade in a bushe, an vele aslepe.

     He thrust his head in a bush, and fell asleep.

   • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 3-5:

     Hea daffed his cooat, pidh it an a bushe, an begaan to peale a cooat, an zide,

     He took off his coat, put it on a bush, and began to beat the coat, and said,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 28