bush – English noun declension

English noun forms of bush

Noun: bush
Singularbush
Pluralbushes

Sample Sentences

  • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 18:]
  • bushes to support pea vines
  • We saw a bush of wood, and in the heart of it a little open space. [1894, S. R. Crockett, The Raiders:]
  • If it be true, that good wine needs no buſh, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue. [c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], page 207, column 2:]
  • "Well," replied Lady Mary, "who is to know where good wine is sold, unless you hang out the bush." [1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter IV. The Fête.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 31:]
  • As he ſtood on one ſide for a minute or ſo, unbuttoning his waſte-coat, and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greaſy landſkip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth'd gap, overſhaded with a grizzly buſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar's wallet for its'^([sic]) proviſion. (Fanny Hill) [1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 65:]
  • I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue. [1941, Henry Miller, Under the Roofs of Paris (Opus Pistorum), New York: Grove Press, published 1983, page 27:]
  • But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush. [1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 787:]
  • I push my seed in her bush for life / It's gonna work because I'm pushing it right [2002, “The Seed (2.0)”, in Phrenology, performed by The Roots:]
  • I think on Saturday I'm gonna find out if red-haired girls have a red bush! [2025 September 3, “Wok Is Dead”, in South Park, season 27, episode 4, spoken by Butters:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English bush, from Old English *busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Busk (“bush”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest, wood”), German Busch (“bush, shrub; small forest, grove”), Luxembourgish Bësch (“forest, wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk busk (“bush, shrub”), Icelandic buski (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic.
4. Compare typologically Russian за́росли (zárosli) (akin to расти́ (rastí)). Also compare Russian быльё (bylʹjó) (distantly cognate via *bʰuH-). See: Middle English Nouns 'bush', Dutch Nouns 'bos', German Nouns 'Busch', Icelandic Nouns 'buski', Swedish Nouns 'buske', Latin Nouns 'boscus', French Nouns 'bois', Italian Nouns 'bosco', Spanish Nouns 'bosque', Portuguese Nouns 'bosque', Russian Nouns 'быльё'.

Verbs referencing "bush"

Spanish Nouns bosque, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns busk, German Nouns Busch, Swedish Nouns buske, Irish Nouns Buiseach, Dutch Nouns bushbush.