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Is bush a Scrabble word?

Yes, bush is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of bush?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.Examples: "I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn."Synonyms: shrub

2. (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.Examples: "If it be true, that good wine needs no buſh, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue."; ""Well," replied Lady Mary, "who is to know where good wine is sold, unless you hang out the bush.""historical

3. (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.Examples: "As he ſtood on one ſide for a minute or ſo, unbuttoning his waſte-coat, and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greaſy landſkip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth’d gap, overſhaded with a grizzly buſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar’s wallet for its’ proviſion."; "I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue."; "But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush."Synonyms: bush, carpet, floss, fluff, forest, fur, fuzz, grassslangvulgar

4. (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.Examples: "Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene."intransitive

noun (English)

1. (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.archaic

noun (English)

1. (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.Examples: "Mad terror had scattered them, men, women, and children, through the bush, and they had never returned."countableoftenuncountablewith-definite-article

2. (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.Examples: "I remember, about five years ago, I was greatly annoyed by a ghost, while doing a job of fencing in the bush between here and Perth."; "Little Dot had lost her way in the bush."; "The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature."Australiacountableoftenuncountablewith-definite-article

3. (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.New-Zealandcountableoftenuncountablewith-definite-article

4. (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.Canadacountableoftenuncountablewith-definite-article

5. (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.Synonyms: bushlotCanadacountableuncountable

adv (English)

1. (Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.Examples: "On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own."Australianot-comparable

adj (English)

1. (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.Examples: "They’re supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush."colloquial

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "bush"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "bush"?

Scrabble
9 points
B3
U1
S1
H4
Words With Friends
10 points
B4
U2
S1
H3

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