BUSHES

Date "BUSHES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonym: BUSHES

Experiment

Grope; feel one's way, grope for one's way; fumble, t_tonner, aller _ t_tons, put out a feeler, throw out a feeler; send up a trial balloon, send up a pilot balloon; see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, test the waters, feel out, sound out, take the pulse, see, check, check out, see how the wind blows; consult the barometer; feel the pulse; fish for, bob for; cast for, beat about for; angle, trawl, cast one's net, beat the bushes.

Crosswords: BUSHES

I got rose bushes didn't I (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

A bird in the hand is always greener than the grass under the other guy's bushes. It's a metaphor used by gardeners and landscaping people in general (North; writing credit: Alan Zweibel)

The killer jumped out of the bushes, gutted his victim, and then threw him in the river (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Am too, your standing in the bushes hugging a bent box of chocolates, and I'm. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

He could be behind the wall, inside the water barrel, beneath a pile of leaves, up in the tree, squatting down behind the car, concealed in a hollow, or crouched behind any one of a hundred bushes. However we happen to know he's in the water barrel (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go ("The Battle of New Orleans"; performing artist: Johnny Horton)

We can beat around the bushes; (Heartache Tonight; performing artist: The Eagles)

Adventures of D.P. Boys 3: Between the Bushes (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Academic Affairs: Or Beneath the Gown Being a Punographic Roman a Cleft Detailing Professorial Dalliances Amid the Grooves and Bushes O (reference)

• Depicting the Colours in Trees and Bushes (reference)

• Lords Bushes : the history and ecology of an Epping Forest woodland (reference)

• Pounding the Pavements, Beating the Bushes and Other Pataphysical Poems (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Something Gonna Jump out the Bushes (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Groundsel bushes displaying silver-bristled seeds following flowering in late summer. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Volunteers from a local high school cut Brazilian Pepper bushes at their bases and then spray a spot application of herbicide. Brazilian Pepper is an introduced species that outcompetes the native mangroves. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A local school group poses after the removal effort. Volunteers cut Brazilian Pepper bushes from native mangrove habitat and then the County Roadworks uses a chipper to chip the bushes and dispose of the brush. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A boa constrictor in the bushes of Isla Gorgona. The island has numerous snakes making it dangerous to proceed into the jungle or even to camp overnight. Credit: Small World.

Farmers spray rasberriey bushes planted on the contour on a farm near Danville, Ohio. Credit: Unknown.

Hospital, Lambarene, Africa. : View of corrugated buildings and huts, with coffee bushes in the foreground. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Bushes in shadow with blooms. Credit: Library of Congress.

Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, standing in her garden, by rose bushes, with some flowers in her hand, facing slightly right. Credit: Library of Congress.

Formal gardens at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Harold I. Pratt, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, pond and bushes in foreground. Credit: Library of Congress.

Discussing the method of planting strawberry bushes to prevent gulley erosion. Falls City Farmsteads, Mebraska. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The bushes shook their little thin arms with an incredible fury

Ma threw the door open and half pulled the struggling old lady out beside the road and into the bushes.

Once more, on the left, where are seen the well and lilac bushes by the wall, in the now open field, lived Nutting and Le Grosse

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The tsetse fly is less active during the hottest period of the day. It rests in bushes but may bite if disturbed. (references)

Control measures include wearing gloves and long sleeves when handling wires, rose bushes, hay bales, conifer (pine) seedlings, or other materials that may cause minor skin breaks. (references)

Human Rights

Nicaragua

The bus crashed into a tree and the passengers subsequently took cover in nearby bushes. (references)

Nicaragua

Voluntary police officer Eugenio Jose Treminio Ruiz believed that one of the passengers leaving the bus was a hijacker and followed him to the bushes. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Avoid crowds, mass transit, doorways, bushes, alleys, and sparsely populated areas. (references)

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Expression using "BUSHES": beat the bushes. Additional references.

Ending with "BUSHES": burro-bushes, gooseberry-bushes, gorse-bushes, mordor-bushes, nut-bushes, rose-bushes, salt-bushes.

Czech

křoví (scrub, shrub, shrubs). (various references)

Danish

facies med kratvækst (facies where bushes grow). (various references)

Dutch

afgeleid struweeltype (facies where bushes grow). (various references)

French

faciès d'embuissonnement (facies where bushes grow). (various references)

German

buschwerk (shrubbery), Sträucher (shrubbery), Büsche (shrubbery, shrubs). (various references)

Greek 

θάμνοι (scrub, shrubbery, underbrush). (various references)

Hungarian

besurran a bokrok közé (to dive into the bushes), berohan a bokrok közé (to dive into the bushes). (various references)

Italian

facies coperta di cespugli (facies where bushes grow). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

草叢 (clump of bushes, grassy place, jungle, the bush, thicket), 叢 (clump of bushes, grassy place, jungle, the bush, thicket). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くさむら (clump of bushes, grassy place, jungle, the bush, thicket). (various references)

Pig Latin

ushesbay.(various references)

Portuguese

facies arbustiva (facies where bushes grow). (various references)

Romanian

tufiş (brush, brushwood, Bush, covert, Grove, scrub, shrubbery, thicket). (various references)

Spanish

facies de matorrales (facies where bushes grow). (various references)

Swedish

buskar (coppice-wood). (various references)

Turkish

çalılık (brake, braky, brushwood, brush-wood, coppice, copse, scrub, scrubby, shrubbery, spinney, thicket). (various references)

arbusta, arbustorum, arca, frutecta, frutectis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "BUSHES": ambushes, buttonbushes, hagbushes, hobblebushes, maybushes, rosebushes, saltbushes, shadbushes, snowbushes, spicebushes, staggerbushes, steeplebushes, tarbushes, thornbushes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"BUSHES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bewsher, boches, boshe, Bozhe, buches, buchet, Buchez, Budhas, Bulhoes, Busche, bushi, bushies, busnes, busness, bussnes, Buthus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: buses.

-2 letters: bush, buss, hubs, hues, shes, subs, sues, uses.

-3 letters: bus, ess, hes, hub, hue, she, sub, sue, use.

-4 letters: be, eh, es, he, sh, uh, us.

+1 letter: blushes, brushes, bushels, bushers.

+2 letters: ambushes, beshouts, blushers, brushers, bushiest, bushless, hubrises, rosebush, subheads, subphase, subshell.

+3 letters: ambushers, baghouses, beshrouds, brushiest, buckshees, bughouses, bulrushes, burnishes, bushelers, bushfires, bushiness, chasubles, furbishes, hagbushes, houseboys, kurbashes, maybushes, phoebuses, publishes, rhombuses, rubbishes, sagebrush, spicebush, subchaser, subchiefs, subechoes, subepochs, subniches, subphases, subshells, subthemes, sunbathes, tarbushes.

+4 letters: airbrushes, backhouses, backrushes, bathhouses, birdhouses, bluefishes, blueshifts, bluishness, boathouses, brushfires, buhrstones, bullrushes, bunkhouses, burnishers, bushmaster, chubbiness, clubhouses, flashcubes, flashtubes, furbishers, hibiscuses, houseboats, humbleness, husbanders, numbfishes, outblushes, publishers, rosebushes, saltbushes, shadbushes, shrubbiest, snowbushes, subchasers, sunbathers.