Bushman
Full definition of bushman
Noun
- (Australia) A person who frequents the Australian bush or outback, often skilled in camping techniques.
- 1970, Douglas Pike, Australia: The Quiet Continent, %22bushmen+%22+australia+-intitle:%22bushman|bushmen%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NrMaT8ebNPGviQfazuDbCw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bushman%20%22|%22bushmen%20%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22bushman|bushmen%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 230,To A. B. Paterson, son of a dispossessed squatter, writing from a city office, the bushmen with their horses and simple skills were the backbone of Australia.
- 2000, Donald Denoon, Philippa Mein Smith, Marivic Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, %22bushmen+%22+australia+-intitle:%22bushman|bushmen%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NrMaT8ebNPGviQfazuDbCw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bushman%20%22|%22bushmen%20%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22bushman|bushmen%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 214,Itshref="http://freewordfinder.com/dictionary/w/">The Bulletin's writers shaped ‘a group myth about Australians and their destiny’; in the absence of conventional heroes, visiting the past to claim the bushman as the first ‘Australian’, the anti-hero in the struggles against empire.
- 2010, Susan Lawrence, Peter Davies, An Archaeology of Australia Since 1788, %22bushmen+%22+australia+-intitle:%22bushman|bushmen%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gpsaT9i4OYSSiQffib3mCw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bushman%20%22|%22bushmen%20%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22bushman|bushmen%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 117,Later, historian Russel Ward (1958) famously identified the outback bushman as the “typical†Australian – a rugged individualist, courageous and loyal to his mates.
