Dictionary: BURO – BUSH

• BURO
n. 1937 UK sl. – an unemployment exchange; the Department of Social Security
 
• BUROO
n. 1934 sl., chiefly Sc. – orig. the Employment Exchange; hence, unemployment benefit
 
• BURP
n. 1. 1932 sl. – a belch
n. 2. 1967 Aust. sl. – vomit; an act of vomiting
n. 3. 1984 UK sl. – a fart
n. 4. 1985 Bermuda sl. – any alcoholic beverage
vb. 1929 sl., orig. US – to belch
 
• BURP GUN
n. 1946 US colloq. – an automatic pistol; a submachine gun
 
• BURP ‘N’ BLOW
n. 2004 UK sl. – the act of burping into your cupped hands then blowing the retained air at a chosen victim
 
• BURP THE WORM
vb. 2001 US sl. – of a male: to masturbate
 
• BURQA           
n. 2002 US sl. – an out-of-style fashion garment
 
• BURR
n. 1. c1440 – a circle
n. 2. 1631 – a circle of light round the moon, or a star
n. 3. 1818 – whirr, vibratory or rushing noise
n. 4. 1859 Amer. dial. – a pine cone
n. 5. 1950 Amer. dial. – a man’s very short haircut
n. 6. 1966 Amer. dial. – the hull of a strawberry
n. 7. 1968 Amer. dial. – the unpaved part of a graded road along the edge of the pavement
n. 8. 1980 US sl. – the recurring operating expenses in a circus or carnival
vb. 1. 1660 obs. rare – to spread out like a burr round the moon
vb. 2. 1838 – to make a whirring noise
 
• BURRATINE
n. a1637 obs. – a puppet; ‘a sillie gull in a Comedie’
 
• BURRHEAD
adj. 1930 Amer. dial. – of Black people: having tight, curly hair
n. 1. 1902 Amer. dial., derogatory – a Black person
n. 2. 1965 Amer. dial. – a man’s very short haircut
n. 3. 1967 Amer. dial. – a mule
 
• BURRHEADED
adj. 1948 Amer. dial. – of Black people: having tight, curly hair
 
• BURRING
adj. 1886 – whirring
 
• BURRIO
n. c1540 obs. – a hangman, an executioner  
 
• BURRIOUR
n. c1550 Sc. obs. – a hangman, an executioner
 
• BURRITO
adj. 1997 US sl. – cold  
 
• BURRITO BAG
n. 1997 US sl. – a mesh restraint used by police to contain a violent person
 
• BURRITO PONCHO
n. 1998 UK sl. – a condom
 
• BURRO
n. 1. 1947 US sl. – a racehorse that does not perform well
n. 2. 1971 Amer. dial. – a burrito
 
• BURROO
n. 1937 UK sl. – an unemployment exchange; the Department of Social Security
 
• BURROW
n. 1. 1499 obs. – a circle of light about the moon
n. 2. 1577 Eng. dial. – shelter
vb. 1657 obs. rare – to protect, to shelter
 
• BURROWER
n. 1977 UK security service usage – a researcher
 
• BURROW-HEADED
adj. 1650 obs. – ? given to searching things out, inquisitive, curious
 
• BURR UNDER YOUR SADDLE BLANKET
n. 1987 Can. sl. – an unexplained irritability  
 
• BURR UP YOUR ASS
n. 1960 US sl. – a person with a displeased focus on something
 
• BURRY
adj. 1568 obs. – shaggy, rough, as a dog
 
• BURSAR
n. 1. 1567 – in Scottish universities and schools: a student or scholar who holds a bursary
n. 2. 1587 – a treasurer, esp. of a college
 
• BURSCH
n. 1830 – a student in a German university
 
• BURSE
n. 1. 1553 obs. – a meeting-place of merchants for transaction of business; an Exchange
n. 2. 1577 – a college, or academic hall
 
• BURSEN BELCH
n. Bk1898 Sc. – one who is breathless from corpulence
 
• BURST
n. 1. c1000 obs. – damage, injury, harm; loss
n. 2. 1849 colloq.- a prolonged bout of drunkenness; a spree; also, a big feed, a ‘blow out’
n. 3. 1857 sl. – housebreaking, burglary
n. 4. 1881 colloq. – a prolonged bout of drunkenness; a spree
n. 5. M19 colloq. – a large meal
vb. 1. a1100 obs. – to cease, to come to an end
vb. 2. c1250 obs. – to break, to snap, to shatter suddenly
vb. 3. 1600 obs. – to violate a law or a principle
vb. 4. 1842 poetic usage – to interrupt, to put a sudden end to
vb. 5 1892 sl. – to spend money extravagantly
vb. 6. 1971 Bahamas sl. – to ejaculate  
vb. 7. 1987 Irish sl. – to strike someone violently
 
• BURST A GUT
vb. 1965 Amer. dial. – to hurt oneself by laughing too hard; to laugh very hard
 
• BURST A HAME
vb. 1950 Amer. dial. – to become excessively angry
 
• BURST A HAME STRING
vb. 1967 Amer. dial. – to laugh very hard
 
• BURSTED
adj. 1873 US colloq. – cleaned out, broke
 
• BURSTED VESSEL
n. 1967 Amer. dial. – a varicose vein
 
• BURSTEN
adj. c1440 – burst, torn open
 
• BURSTENED
adj. 1697 obs. – filled to bursting
 
• BURSTENNESS
n. 1483 obs. – burst state or quality; rupture, hernia
 
• BURSTER
n. 1. 1831 Amer. sl. – a remarkable person or thing
n. 2. 1863 sl. – in horse racing: a heavy fall, a cropper
n. 3. 1866 Amer. criminals’ sl. – a burglar
n. 4. Bk1890 sl. – a small loaf
n. 5. 1895 Amer. dial. – a hurricane
 
• BURSTING
n. 1. 1544 obs. – rupture, hernia
n. 2. 1771 obs. – explosion, explosive noise
n. 3. 1834 – a financial break-down
n. 4. 1871 – rushing impetuously from restraint or rest
 
• BURSTING AT THE SEAMS
adj. 1962 UK sl. – overfull
 
• BURST ONE’S BOILER
vb. 1824 US – to come to grief, to bring to grief; to suffer disappointment, misfortune or other trouble
 
• BURST ONE’S BRAIN
vb. 1587 obs. – to take or use excessive thought
 
• BURST ONE’S BUTTONS
vb. 1. 1950 Amer. dial. – to strain one’s clothing by laughing too hard; to laugh very hard
vb. 2. 1950 Amer. dial. – to strain oneself physically or emotionally
vb. 3. 1966 Amer. dial. – to swell with pride
 
• BURST ON THE WING
vb. 1809 poetic usage – of a bird: to start off into flight
 
• BURST OUT IN FAIRY LIGHTS
vb. 1996 Sc. sl. – to show an expected level of enthusiasm
 
• BURST-UP
n. 1879 – the failure or collapse of an organization or scheme
vb. 1. 1601 obs. – to shatter, to destroy
vb. 2. 1848 – to become bankrupt
 
• BURT
vb. 1. c1440 obs. – to push or thrust, as with horns; to butt
vb. 2. 1597 obs. – to pierce, to gore
 
• BURTHENOUS
adj. 1. 1529 obs. – heavy, ponderous
adj. 2. 1567 obs. – onerous, cumbersome; oppressive
 
• BURTHENSOME
adj. 1578 – burdensome, onerous, cumbersome, oppressive, troublesome, wearisome
 
• BURTON-(ON-TRENT)
adj. 1996 UK rhyming sl. for ‘bent’ – homosexual
n. 1932 UK rhyming sl. – rent
 
• BURWASH
n. 1983 UK sl. – a swindle, for fun or profit
 
• BURY
n. c1175 obs. – a manor-house or large farm
vb. 1. 1904 US sl. – to sentence a criminal to a long or life term in prison
vb. 2. 1991 US sl. – in casino gambling: to place a card in the middle of a deck or in the discard pile
 
• BURY A TOMMYHAWK
vb. c1939 Amer. dial. – to copulate
 
• BURY CAESAR
vb. 1927 US jocular usage – to effect intromission of the penis
 
• BURY GROUND
n. 1965 Amer. dial. – a cemetery
 
• BURY HOLE
n. 1940 Amer. dial. – a grave
 
• BURYIN’ CART
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – a hearse
 
• BURYING
n. 1297 – a funeral, burial, interment
 
• BURYING GROUND
n. 1711 – a churchyard, a graveyard, a cemetery
 
• BURYING HILL
n. 1808 Amer. dial. – a cemetery
 
• BURYING LOT
n. 1965 Amer. dial. – a cemetery
 
• BURYING PLACE
n. 1382 – a churchyard, a graveyard, a cemetery
 
• BURYING POINT
n. 1975 Amer. dial. – a cemetery
 
• BURYING YARD
n. 1965 Amer. dial. – a cemetery
 
• BURY OLD FAGIN
vb. 1950s sl. – of a man: to have sexual intercourse (Fagin – penis)
 
• BURY PATCH
n. 1965 Amer. dial. – a cemetery
 
• BURY THE DEAD HORSE
vb. 19C Aust., NZ, & US sl. – to work to pay off a debt
 
• BURY THE FANG
vb. 1950s sl. – to have sexual intercourse
 
• BURY THE STIFFY
vb. 1994 US sl. – from a male perspective: to have sex
 
• BURY THE TOMAHAWK
vb. 1. 1848 – to lay down one’s arms, to cease from hostilities
vb. 2. 1939 Amer. dial. – to copulate
 
​• BUS
n. 1. 1881 colloq. – a motor car
n. 2. 1902 US rare – an ‘omnibus’, a waiter’s assistant; a busboy
n. 3. 1906 sl. – a wheelbarrow
n. 4. 1910 colloq. – an aeroplane, esp. a heavy one
n. 5. 1935 Amer. dial. – a kiss
n. 6. 1992 US sl. – an ambulance
n. 7. 2003 US Biker usage – a large touring motorcycle
vb. 1. a1400 Eng. dial. obs. – to need to do something to be obliged or constrained to
vb. 2. 1889 Amer. dial. – to kiss
vb. 3. 1889 Amer. dial. – to hit, to strike
vb. 4. 1995 US sl. – to shoot a gun at someone
 
• BUS AND TRAM
n. 1978 UK rhyming sl. – jam
 
• BUS AND TRUCK
phr. 1973 US sl. – said of a travelling show, with the cast and crew travelling by bus, and with the props and wardrobe in a truck
 
• BUS A TOWN
vb. World War II Amer. sl. – to fly low near a town
 
• BUSBOY
n. 1. 1867 obs. – a boy or man who collects fares, etc., on a bus
n. 2. 1904 US – a waiter’s assistant; a person employed to clear tables in a restaurant, etc.
 
• BUSCARL
n. a1000 – in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England: a member of a body of men retained, apparently usually by the king, to guard the coast
 
• BUSCH
vb. c1400 obs. – to move quickly, to rush; of water: to flow rapidly and forcefully, to gush
 
• BUS DRIVER
n. 1. 1944 US sl. – a pilot, esp. the pilot of a military transport aircraft 
n. 2. 1996 US sl. – in poker: the player in a given hand who controls the betting 
 
• BUSE
vb. 1. 1589 – to abuse; to use something improperly, to misuse; to pervert, to take advantage of 
vb. 2. 1965 Barbados – to swear at someone 
 
• BUS FACE
n. 1997 US sl. – the worn-out look gained from sleeping on a bus overnight 
 
• BUSGIRL
n. 1. 1914 US – a girl or young woman employed to clear tables in a restaurant, etc. 
n. 2. 1916 Brit. – a female bus conductor 
 
• BUSH
adj. 1. 1959 US sl. – second-rate, amateurish 
adj. 2. 1969 Aust. sl. – rough and ready 
int. 1965 Amer. dial. – nonsense!
n. 1. 1509 – a bushy head of hair 
n. 2. 1575 obs. – a bushy tail, esp. of a fox 
n. 3. 1650 sl. – pubic hair, esp. of a woman 
n. 4. 1840 Amer. dial. – boasting, bluster, ‘tall talk’ 
n. 5. 1856 NZ obs. – a clump of trees 
n. 6. 1895 sl. – the cat-o’-nine-tails 
n. 7. 20C sl. – one’s real boyfriend or girlfriend; one with ‘roots’ (teen & high school usage)
n. 8. 1942 Aust. sl. – the suburbs 
n. 9. 1951 US sl. – marijuana 
n. 10. 1966 US sl. – a sexually active female; a promiscuous woman 
n. 11. 1968 Amer. dial. – a person who tries to appear important 
n. 12. 1998 UK sl. – cocaine 
vb. 1. 1330 obs. – to hide in a bush; to lie in ambush 
vb. 2. a1387 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – to butt with the head; to push 
vb. 3. a1659 obs. – to stop a hole, opening, or passage 
vb. 4. 1953 US sl. – in the used car business: to extract through any of a series of questionably ethical means more from a customer than originally contemplated by the customer 
vb. 5. 1971 US sl. – to deceive someone 
 
• BUSHA
n. 1. 1969 Amer. dial. – a grandfather 
n. 2. 1969 Amer. dial. – a grandmother 
 
• BUSHAILE
n. 1. a1400 obs. – a copse or thicket; often as a place of concealment, an ambush 
n. 2. c1400 obs. – brushwood, underwood
 
• BUSH AROUND
vb. 1970 Amer. dial. – to consider, to discuss something 
 
• BUSH BABY
n. 1940 Amer. dial. – an illegitimate child 
 
• BUSH BACON
n. 1941 Amer. dial. – a rabbit 
 
• BUSH BAPTIST
n. 1. 1902 Aust. & NZ sl. rare – a person of dubious religious persuasion or one who has no religious persuasion at all 
n. 2. 1967 Amer. dial. – a person of vague but strong religious beliefs 
 
• BUSH-BASH
vb. 1967 Aust. sl. – to forge a path through scrubland; to travel through virgin bush 
 
• BUSH BASHER
n. 1971 Aust. sl. – a person who forges a new pathway through scrubland 
 
• BUSH-BEATER
n. 1809 – a backwoodsman; a lumberman 
 
• BUSH BLASTER
n. 2001 US sl. – the penis 
 
• BUSH BROTHERHOOD
n. 1903 – a society of missionaries, clerical and lay, established to evangelize the inhabitants of the Australian bush 
 
• BUSH BUNNY
n. 2004 Fiji sl. – a woman from a remote area; a naive, unsophisticated woman 
 
• BUSH-BUSTER
n. 1933 Amer. dial. – a hillbilly; a rustic 
 
• BUSH CAPITAL
n. 1906 Aust. sl. – Canberra, the capital city of Australia; so-called because it was a new city built in the ‘bush’ (countryside) halfway between the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne 
 
• BUSH CHILD
n. 1954 Amer. dial. – an illegitimate child 
 
• BUSH DINNER
n. 1967 US sl. – oral sex on a woman 
 
• BUS HEAD
n. 1988 US sl. – what one looks like after a long school field trip or away game (teen & high school usage)
 
• BUSHED
adj. 1. a1513 – having a bushy head of hair 
adj. 2. 1812 sl. obs. – poor, without money 
adj. 3. 1848 Aust. colloq. – lost in the bush or uncleared country; hence, bewildered 
adj. 4. 1870 N. Amer. sl. – tired; exhausted
adj. 5. 1941 Amer. dial. – isolated, feeling the effects of ‘cabin fever’ 
 
• BUSH EEL
n. 1835 Amer. dial. – a rattlesnake 
 
• BUSHEL
n. 1. c1374 – a large quantity or number
n. 2. 1889 US – a tailor’s thimble
n. 3. 1976 US sl. – in trucking: a load of half a ton
vb. 1877 US – to repair garments
 
• BUSHEL (AND PECK)
n. 1979 UK rhyming sl. – the neck, the throat
 
• BUSHEL BUBBY
n. 1785 sl. – a woman with large, full breasts
 
• BUSHEL-CUNTED
adj. 1980 US sl. – possessing a slack and distended vagina
 
• BUSHELER;  BUSHELLER
n. 1846 Amer. dial. – one who repairs garments for tailors
 
• BUSHELMAN
n. 1864 US – a man employed in repair tailoring
 
• BUSHEL OF COKE
n. 1960 UK rhyming sl. for ‘bloke’ – a man
 
• BUSHEL-POKE
n. 1523 obs. – a sack or bag
 
• BUSHEL-WOMAN
n. 1889 US – a woman employed in repair tailoring
 
• BUSHER
n. Amer. World War I sl. – a German
 
• BUSHES
n. 1. Bk1942 Amer. theatrical sl. – a false beard
n. 2. 1975 US sl. – any place where sexual activity takes place, whether or not an actual bush is involved
 
• THE BUSHES
n. 1965 Amer. dial. – an insignificant or unimportant place; an out-of-the-way place
 
• BUSHET
n. 1573 obs. – a small shrub or bush; a small thicket
 
• BUSH-FIGHTER
n. 1760 – an irregular combatant or skirmisher, accustomed to fight in the bush; one who fires from among the bushes
 
• BUSHFIRE BLONDE
n. 1943 Aust. sl. – a red-headed woman
 
• BUSH GANG
n. 1987 Can sl. – a prison work gang working without the traditional chains
 
• BUSH HERB
n. 1987 Can sl. – an unremarkable marijuana
 
• BUSHI
n. 1969 Amer. dial. – a grandmother
 
• BUSHIE
n. 1. 1887 Aust. sl. – a person who lives in the bush
n. 2. 1987 Aust. sl. – a rough, tough, unattractive, or otherwise unappealing woman  
n. 3. 2002 US sl. – a supporter or a member of the administration of US President George W, Bush
 
• BUSH IS ANOTHER WORD FOR CUNT
phr. 2003 US sl. – used as a slogan that registers absolute contempt for US President George W. Bush
 
• BUSHISM
n. 1916 NZ rare – a word or idiom peculiar to or used in the bush
 
• BUSH-LAWYER
n. 1. 1874 Aust. – a mining agent  
n. 2. 1916 NZ rare – a layman who fancies he has a knowledge of law; an argumentative person
 
• BUSH-LEAGUE
adj. 1908 N. Amer. colloq. – inferior, minor, unsophisticated; mediocre, second-rate
 
• BUSHLET
n. 1822 rare – a tiny bush
 
• BUSH LIGHT
n. 1995 US sl.- in the pornography industry a light used to illuminate the genitals of the performers
 
• BUSHLING
n. 1562 rare – a little bush
 
• BUSHLOPER
n. 1893 US – one who tramps through the bush or wilderness; a peddler
 
• BUSHMAN
n. 1846 – a person who lives or travels in the Australian or New Zealand ‘bush’; a bush-farmer; a station-hand; a teamster who carries stores to the station; also; a person who fells timber
 
• BUSHMENT
n. 1. c1465 obs. – a body of soldiers forming an ambush
n. 2. a1535 obs. – a surprise party
n. 3. 1555 obs. – a bushy formation of feathers  
n. 4. 1587 obs. – a thicket, a mass of bushes
 
• BUSHNIPPLE
n. 1930 Amer. dial. – a backwoodsman; a hermit
 
• BUSH-RANGER
n. 1817 – an escaped convict who took refuge in the Australian ‘bush’; a criminal living in the bush, and subsisting by robbery with violence
 
• BUSH-RANGING
n. 1832 – the attacking and robbing of travellers or settlers in the bush
 
• BUSH RAT
n. 1935 Amer. dial. – a backwoodsman; a woodsman
 
• BUSHTAIL
n. 1931 Amer. dial. – among loggers: a horse
 
• BUSH TELEGRAPH
n. 1878 Aust. – bushrangers’ confederates who disseminate information as to the movements of the police; rapid spreading of information, or of a rumour, etc.; the ‘grapevine’
 
• BUSH UP
vb. 1926 Amer. dial. – to hide, esp. in dense shrubbery or woods
 
• BUSHWA
adj. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – boorish; rustic
int. 1920 Amer. dial. – nonsense!
n. 1. 1906 Amer. sl. – insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense
n. 2. 1966 Amer. dial. – orig. the voyageur in charge of a trading post or expedition; hence, a boss, a leader; an important person
 
• BUSHWAH;  BUSHWHA
n. 1906 Amer. sl. – insincere or exaggerated talk intended to flatter or deceive; humbug or flattery; nonsense
 
• BUSHWASH
n. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – nonsense
 
• BUSHWHACK
n. 1970 Amer. dial. – illegal made whisky; moonshine
vb. 1. 1809 Amer. dial. – to live in the backwoods
vb. 2. 1866 Amer. dial. – to attack by surprise; to ambush 
vb. 3. Bk1913-17 Amer. dial. – to ‘borrow’ with intent to return
vb. 4. 1937 Amer. dial. – to hike cross-country; to knock aside bushes to go or search through uncleared forest
vb. 5. 1939 Amer. dial. – to beat someone to something, esp. by using secretive methods; to cheat
vb. 6. 20C World War II Amer. sl. – to steal; to lie
 
• BUSHWHACKER
n. 1. 1809 Amer. dial. – a backwoodsman
n. 2. 1862 – during the American Civil War: an irregular combatant who took to the woods, and was regarded as a patriot guerrilla, or a bush-ranger
n. 3. 1898 Amer. dial. – a woodsman
n. 4. 1935 Amer. dial. – one who ambushes
n. 5. 1949 Amer. dial. – an illegitimate child
 
• BUSHWHACKING
adj. 1813 – boorish; rustic
 
• BUSH WHISKY
n. 1955 Amer. dial. – illegal made whisky; moonshine
 
• BUSHY
adj. 1615 obs. – of persons: with long thick hair
n. 1896 Aust. – a dweller in the bush; a bushman as distinguished from a townsman