Part 42 (1/2)

”A hint dropped in this town set the bush telegraphs riding in all directions”

<hw>Bushwoman</hw>, n See quotation

1892 `The Australasian,' April 9, p 707, col 1:

”But who has championed the cause of the woman of the bush-- or, would it be more correct to say bushwoman, as well as bushman?--and allowed her also a clai of a nation?”

<hw>Bush-wren</hw>, n See Wren

1888 W L Buller, `Birds of New Zealand,' vol i p 108:

[A full description]

<hw>Bushed</hw>, adj, quasi past participle, lost in the bush; then, lost or at a loss

1661 T McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p 115:

”I left my seat to reach a shelter, which was so`bushed'”

1865 W Howitt, `Discovery in Australia,' vol i p 283:

”The poor youth, new to the wilds, had, in the expressive phrase of the colonials, got bushed, that is, utterly bewildered, and thus lost all idea of the direction that he ought to pursue”

1885 R M Praed, `Australian Life,' p 29:

”I get quite bushed in these streets”

1896 `The Argus,' Jan 1, p 4, col 9:

”The Ministry did not assuraphically described the position of affairs by stating that the House was `bushed;' while Mr shi+els co hither and thither”

<hw>Bustard</hw>, n ”There are about twenty species, mostly of Africa, several of India, one of Australia, and three properly European” (`Century') The Australian variety is Eupodotis australis, Gray, called also Wild Turkey, Native Turkey, and Plain Turkey See Turkey

<hw>Buster, Southerly</hw>, n The word is a corruption of `burster,' that which bursts A sudden and violent squall from the south The name, used first in Sydney, has been adopted also in other Australian cities See Brickfielder

1863 F Fowler, in `Athenaeum,' Feb 21, p 264, col 1:

”The cold wind or southerly buster whichcarries a thick cloud of dustacross the city”

1878 `The Australian,' vol i p 587:

”Southerly Busters by `Ironbark'”

1886 F Cowan, `Australia, a Charcoal Sketch':

”The Buster and Brickfielder: austral red-dust blizzard; and red-hot Simoom”

1889 Rev J H Zillmann, `Australian Life,' p 40:

”Generally these winds end in what is commonly called a `southerly buster' This is preceded by a lull in the hot wind; then suddenly (as it has been put) it is as though a bladder of cool air were exploded, and the strong cool southerly air drives up with tree of teht in a `southerly buster,' but the drifting rain which always follows soon sets ht, allays the dust, and then follows the calhtful by contrast with thedreary days and nights”