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Definition: Bushwhacker |
BushwhackerNoun1. A disparaging term for an unsophisticated person. 2. A Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bushwhacker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references) |
Synonym: BushwhackerSynonym: hillbilly (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Mercenary, soldier of fortune; hired gun, gunfighter, gunslinger; bushwhacker, free lance, companion; Hessian. |
Freedom | Bushwhacker; freelance, free thinker, free trader; independent. |
Sharpness | Wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, coulter, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword; (arms); bodkin; (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome; chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bushwhacker | 19 |
bushwhacker fender flare | 7 |
bushwhacker drunk | 2 |
bushwhacker recipe | 2 |
bushwhacker drink | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bushwhacker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обитател на горски пущинаци (backwoodsman), бандит (bandit, brigand, bush-ranger, butch, hijacker, hold-up-man, mosstrooper, rough, tough), дървар (logger, lumberjack, lumberman, woodcutter, woodman), дезертьор (defector, deserter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Buschmesser (bushwhackers, machete). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tudatlan ember (ignoramus), partizán (guerilla, guerrilla, partisan), nyers ember, kerti kés, kacsozó kés, gerilla-harcos, fosztogató katonaszökevény, favágó (chopper, hewer, lumberer, lumberjack, lumberman, river, woodcutter, woodsman), bozótban kószáló, bozótban élő. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ushwhackerbay partizan (adherent, advocate, follower, friend, guerrilla, partisan, supporter, sympathizer, upholder), locuitor al desişurilor de pãdure. (various references) guerrillero (guerrilla, irregular, partisan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bushwhacker": bushwhackers. (additional references) | |
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"Bushwhacker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bushwacker, bushwahacker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "bushwhacker" (pronounced 'Bush"whack`er'): Acetifier, Acidifier, Aletaster, Almsgiver, Amplifier, Ant-eater, Anywhither, Armor-bearer, Backbiter, Backhander, Bagpiper, Ball-flower, Barkeeper, Barnburner, Barnstormer, Bartender, Base-burner, Basifier, Batfowler, Beaucatcher, Beautifier, Bedmaker, Bedswerver, Bee-eater, Beefeater, Bellwether, Benefiter, Birdcatcher, Blackmailer, Blacksalter, Bloodflower, Bloodsucker, Bogsucker, Bondholder, Bookbinder, Bookholder, Bookkeeper, Bookmaker, Bookseller, Bootmaker, Bottleholder, Boxkeeper, Boycotter, Breechloader, Brickfielder, Bricklayer, Brickmaker, Bull-roarer, Bushfighter, Bystander. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-h-h-k-r-s-u-w" | |
-2 letters: bushwhack. | |
-3 letters: backrush, hachures, hauberks, whackers. | |
-4 letters: backers, braches, buckers, buckras, bucksaw, bushwah, chabuks, chawers, cherubs, chukars, hachure, hackers, hauberk, hawkers, kurbash, rubaces, sawbuck, shucker, subrace, waesuck, whacker. | |
-5 letters: abuser, arches, baches, backer, bakers, basher, braces, brachs, brakes, breach, breaks, bucker, buckra, burkes, bursae, busher, bushwa, busker, cabers, cashew, causer, cesura, chabuk, chares, charks. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-h-h-k-r-s-u-w" | |
+1 letter: bushwhackers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 75 73 68 77 68 61 63 6B 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... ..- ... .... .--. .... .- -.-. -.- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110101 01110011 01101000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B u s h w h a c k e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0075 0073 0068 0077 0068 0061 0063 006B 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3687857489746769777184 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, bulgare, bolgár, búlgaro |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, német, neamţ, alemán |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Ungar, magyar, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, húngaro |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumäne, román, român, rumano |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, spanisch, spanyol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, englisch, angol, englezesc, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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