▪ I. bushed, ppl. a.1
(bʊʃt)
[f. bush n.1, v.1 + -ed.]
† 1. Of plants or shrubs: Formed into a bush.
| 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 95 Bassel, fine and busht, sowe in May. 1597 Gerard Herbal xxxiv. §i. 239 Leaues..bushed or braunched at the top. |
2. a. Covered with bushes or ‘bush’.
| 1868 Dilke Greater Brit. II. iii. vi. 62 The coastlands..are exhausted, densely bushed, and uninhabited. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda III. iii. vii. 22 The homely loveliness of bushed bank. |
b. Protected with bushes. (Cf. bush v.1 2.)
| 1884 Illust. Lond. News 29 Nov. 539 It matters but little what the fence may be—a bushed or unbushed one. |
3. transf. a. Having a bushy head of hair.
| 1494 Fabyan vii. ccxxiv. 251 For that tyme clerkes vsed busshed and brayded hedys. 1552 Huloet, Boye with a bushed heade, comatulus. 1623 Favine Theat. Hon. xi. xiii. 235 A great head, thickly bushed and tufted with haire. 1849 Lytton K. Arthur vi. cxxxi, Hideous visage bush'd with tawny hair. |
b. Of the hair: Spreading like a bush, bushy; also bushed out, bushed up.
| 1535 Coverdale Song of Sol. v. 11 The lockes of his hayre are buszshed, browne as the euenynge. 1779 Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 95 The hair of the women was bushed out also. 1842 Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 24 Frizzling hair..bushed out round their heads. |
4. slang. At ‘Beggar's Bush’. ? Obs.
| 1812 J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Bush'd, poor; without money. |
5. a. Lost in the bush (n.1 9). Cf. bogged.
| 1856 Tait's Mag. XXIII. 740, I narrowly escaped being ‘bushed’. 1881 A. C. Grant Bush Life Queensl. II. xxxi. 154 John feared that he might get bushed. |
b. transf. and fig. Lost as in the bush. Austral. and N.Z. colloq.
| 1885 Mrs. Praed Australian Life 29, I get quite bushed in these streets. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 3/2 He tangled himself up and got ‘bushed’, and frantically implored..everybody..to help him with his contract. 1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 1 The deeper you read..about things that end in ism..the more likely you are to get bushed. 1916 Anzac Book 144/1 To be ‘bushed’ in the heart of London became a common experience with him. 1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target v. 45 We're bushed behind the enemy lines about a hundred miles from nowhere. 1953 ‘N. Shute’ In Wet ii. 39 It is a very easy country to get bushed in; the sense of direction can be easily lost. |
c. Tired, exhausted. N. Amer.
| 1870 Nation July 57/1 To be ‘bushed’ was to be tired. 1910 W. A. Fraser Red Meekins 266, I was that danged near bushed, toward the last that I was feared I might go right on sleepin'. 1958 ‘Castle’ & Hailey Flight into Danger x. 132 You thought you'd reached the end then—completely bushed, with not another ounce left in you. 1966 Oxford Mail 4 June 1/1 Astronaut Eugene Cernan's..spacewalk was postponed..because he and the Gemini-9 command pilot..were ‘pretty well bushed’ from their exertions in space. |
d. Suffering from the effects of isolation (see quots.). Canada.
| 1952 J. Marshall in R. Weaver Canadian Short Stories (1960) 289 ‘You had three years here alone,’ she began. ‘I have never been bushed,’ Toddy interrupted. 1959 Maclean's Mag. 14 Feb. 40/2 It was geographically isolated, and its inhabitants were cut off in separate buildings by the cold and by storms, and often..psychologically isolated—that is, bushed. |
▪ II. bushed, ppl. a.2
(bʊʃt)
[f. bush v.3 + -ed1.]
Fitted with a bush or lining; lined.
| 1907 Installation News May 11/1 Bushed outlets. 1909 Ibid. III. 121 These..boxes are provided with bushed holes. |