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bushranger

noun

Etymology

From bush + ranger.

  1. derived from *hringaz✻
  2. derived from *hring✻
  3. derived from rengier
  4. inherited from rengen
  5. suffixed as ranger — “range + er”
  6. compounded as bushranger — “bush + ranger”

Definitions

  1. A convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture

    A convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.

    • We each discharged a shot in the direction of the explosion by the bushrangers, for we had no other guide in aiming, owing to the night being so very dark, which was rendered denser by the mizzling rain which had been falling all day.
    • The retribution for those who failed to help bushrangers could be severe. Thomas Kenton was imprisoned in 1825, accused of having allowed Matthew Brady to escape, but was later murdered by the bushranger as an informer.²⁸

  2. A person skilled in bushcraft.

    • 1824, The Australian, quoted in 1966, Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, 2nd edition, chapter II section 2, page 31, Mr Hovell lacks all the qualities befitting a bushranger.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA