DCHP-3

bodewash

[alteration of Cdn F bois de vache]
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

dry buffalo dung used as fuel.

Quotations

1897
We therefore gathered a quantity of dry buffalo dung, (bois de vache or "bodewash"). . . .
1953
If I hadn't heard that crack, we'd all be dead right now! Mashed flatter than a bodewash chip!