DCHP-3

bushed ((1))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1adj.

See 1940 quote.

Quotations

1890
"Say . . . did yez hear that ould Schneider, the contractor, was busht--gone up higher than a kite?"
1940
Though the word "bushed" originally connoted partial or complete insanity from living too long or too much alone in the bush, it is also applied nowadays to any mental quirk or derangement brought about in the treeless areas of the Arctic.
1965
And at Spartan's bleak Pelly Bay camp in the Canadian Arctic, a bushed cook arose from bed one midnight . . . set about frying every single egg in the stores, and then nailed them all, sunnyside up, to the cookshack wall.
2adj.

bedevilled, frightened through unfamiliarity with the bush.

Quotations

1910
"I'll trail behind the lord mayor of London--dash him, he's 'bout as near bushed as I ever see a man."
3†adj.

exhausted; tired out.

Quotations

1910
"I was that danged near bushed, toward the last that I was feared I might go right on sleepin'. . . ."
1964
Ehricht . . . arrived back at camp bushed.
4adj.

confined to the bush, as when lost or cut off by weather.

Quotations

1930
"I been bushed all afternoon in this here damn country of yours, an' got so turned around with fences an' bum trails I don't know which end of me's up."
1956
I didn't know the country to the West, and I might follow a big creek thinking it would lead to the Yukon River, and thus find myself bushed, again with winter on my neck.
5adj.

living in the wilderness, away from civilization, by choice.

Quotations

1942
Even in Ungava, wandering was considered fit only for "bushed" white folks--the good-for-nothings, the "squaw-men."
1961
[Caption] We're "Bushed" and We Love It.
1961
Most common symptom of the person who may be called "bushed" is his dislike for the cities, the crowds and the traffic of "outside". . . .