Buschie, noun
- Origin:
- Dutch, EnglishShow more Formed on Dutch boschjesman (see Bosjesman) + English (informal) noun-forming suffix -ie.
obs.
A Khoisan bandit. See also Khoisan sense 1. Cf. bushy.
1731 G. Medley tr. of P. Kolben’s Present State of Cape of G.H. I. 90A Sort of Hottentot Banditti...These are Troops of abandon’d Wretches, who finding the Laws and Customs of their Countries to be too great Restraints upon their Inclinations, repair to the Mountains...They are called Buschies, or High-way Men.
1936 E.C. Llewellyn Influence of Low Dutch 169The early equivalent [of ‘Bushman’] Buschie (1731), applied to a sort of Hottentot bandit, still shows the form of the Du. boschjesman.
A Khoisan bandit.
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