英単語

bushwhackerの意味・使い方・発音

bushwhacker

['bʊʃwækɚ]
  • n.ゲリラ;鎌;木こり

語源


bushwhacker 荒野を旅する。

藪、藪。叩く、殴る、叩く、擬音。

英語の語源


bushwhacker (n.)
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), variously regarded as patriot guerillas or as freebooters. Hence bushwhack (v.), 1837; bushwhacking (1826).

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