BUSHWHACK

ambush, scupper, bushwhack, waylay, lurk, ambuscade, lie in wait

(verb) wait in hiding to attack

bushwhack

(verb) cut one’s way through the woods or bush

bushwhack

(verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

bushwhack (third-person singular simple present bushwhacks, present participle bushwhacking, simple past and past participle bushwhacked)

to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress

to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country

to ambush

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.

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