bushy, noun

Origin:
EnglishShow more From Bushman + English (informal) noun-forming suffix -y.
derogatory, offensive
Hottentot sense 4 b. Also attributive. Cf. Buschie.
1984 Frontline Feb. 26There are bushies living all over the ‘white’ suburbs like Observatory and Woodstock..and apartheid in CA is even more of a gemors and a generally lost cause than in Joeys.
1984 Frontline Feb. 27The black guys hop off and look at the bushy driver like they’re waiting for him to tell them the score.
1987 Sunday Times 12 Apr.He loved rugby and played for a top Durban club until team mates said he was ‘a bushy’.
1988 Pace Dec. 4I’ve heard of swart gevaar and rooi gevaar, but coloured teachers in this one bushy kasie have gone one better.
1989 J. Hobbs Thoughts in Makeshift Mortuary 198I’m a bushy. Not quite black and not quite white.
Hottentot sense 4 b. Also attributive. Cf. Buschie.
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