English Explanatory Dictionary

bush week

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An imagined or symbolic time when assumedly unsophisticated people from the countryside come to the city, likely to be preyed on by tricksters there, or who are unaware of social norms in the city.

Pronunciation

EN-AU ck1 bush week.ogg

Word forms

bush week bush weeks

Etymology

Apparently from an actual attempt to organise a Bush Festival in Sydney in 1919; the idea then being extended to the present figurative use.

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