英语词汇“rush、bush”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

rush-bush

释义

rush-bush
Also 5 reschebusk, 6 resche-bush, 8–9 dial. rex-bush; Sc. 6 rysche-, rasch(e)-bus(s), 8–9 rash-buss, -bush.
[f. rush n.¹ Cf. G. ruschbusch.]
A tuft of rushes.
In early Scottish use common in a proverbial expression denoting the strict suppression of cattle-lifting.
c1425in Wr.-Wülcker 645 Hec papirio, reschebusk.1529Lyndesay Compl. 408, Ihone Upeland bene full blyith, I trow, Because the rysche bus kepis his kow.1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 77 This prouerb of him [James II] in the cuntrie was commoun: He garis the rasche bus keip the kow.a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. V, Wks. (1711) 114 The Poor Man loved him, the Great feared him: He made the Rush-Bushes keep the Herds of Cattel.1746Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.) 38 Rex-bush!—Fath! tell me o' tha Rexbush.1785Burns Address to Deil vii, Ye, like a rash-buss, stood in sight.1833Carlyle in Froude (1882) II. 387 Remember always what you said of the rush-bush here at Puttock on the wayside.1898J. MacManus Bend of Road 149 All who are..on the Ocean with no rush-bush to hould by when the storms come up.

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