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A disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
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bushwhacker
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also bush-whacker , 1809, American English, literally "one who beats the bushes" (to make his way through), perhaps modeled on Dutch bosch-wachter "forest keeper;" see bush (n.) + whack (v.). In American Civil War, "irregular who took to the woods" (1862), ...
Wikipedia
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Bushwhacking was a form of guerrilla warfare common during the American Revolutionary War , American Civil War and other conflicts in which there were large areas of contested land and few governmental resources to control these tracts. This was particularly ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path. 2 (context Australia English) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country. 3 (context US historical English) A ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person [syn: hillbilly ] a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bushwhacker \Bush"whack`er\, n. One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes. They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of raccoons by moonlight. --W. Irving. A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but ...
Usage examples of bushwhacker.
If he could reach it, he could work his way along it until he might have a shot at the bushwhacker from a different angle.
Longarm to cover fifteen of those yards before the bushwhacker realized he was in no danger from the handgun.
Having seen Longarm disappear into the gully, the bushwhacker might be playing it safe.
There was only one bushwhacker, Longarm saw, and the man was already mounted up and wheeling his horse around, about fifty yards away.
The bushwhacker twisted in the saddle and tried to bring his own rifle around for a shot, but Longarm pressed the trigger first.
The bushwhacker wore range clothes, and it was clear from the high-crowned hat that had fallen from his head and the riding boots on his feet that he was no lumberjack.
Earlier, Longarm had been clear about the bushwhacker wanting to kill him, yet now he was telling a different story.
He stayed absolutely still, watching the bushwhacker on the other side of the gully through a tiny gap in the screen of brush.
If there was one thing a bushwhacker hated more than an abolitionist, it was an abolitionist with a congregation.
He straightened in his saddle, and it seemed to Sam that his metallic gaze fell on each bushwhacker in turn.
True, each man had his own reasons for becoming a bushwhacker in the first place, but none of them would have dreamed of attempting a raid so far into Kansas if Quantrill had not offered to lead them in it.
They seemed eager to be at the head of the bushwhacker force as it entered Kansas.
A man recognized as a bushwhacker in Kansas might not stand much of a chance.
Malachi Slater gunned down half my men in the woods along with his bushwhacker friends.
No, the army would take a damned dim view of being faced down by a bushwhacker and pulling out of a long-established garrison post just because a few of their soldiers have been killed.