"bushwah" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1925, George Jean Nathan, The Autobiography of an Attitude, page 230",
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          "ref": "1948, James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor, page 258",
          "text": "This death or glory stuff is all bushwah, except with nuts; and those, you don’t want. An outfit of smart guys, always trying to figure the opposition before the opposition figures them; they can take, any time, any day, an outfit of nuts wound up to crash their planes into something.",
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          "text": "“[…] They’re not taken in by all that socialist bullsh—” He cleared his throat. “Bushwah.”",
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          "ref": "1991, Martin Caidin, Ghosts of the Air: True Stories of Aerial Hauntings, page 42",
          "text": "Oftentimes proof is only in the speaking, but the people listening are pros with tremendous experience in flight, and they can pick out the bushwah instantly.",
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          "text": "“Jesus, you goddamn bushwa niggers in your bushwa house with your bushwa piano.[…]” ¶ […] “No one asked you come to this—this—and the word you’re trying to use is—is bourgeois,” Sophie said, correcting him with icy tranquillity.",
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          "text": "Other IWW leaders conceded they would be willing to dynamite factories and mills in order to win a strike. All of them hurled their defiance at “bushwa” law.",
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