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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bred or reared in the bush.

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Examples

  • The idea of going out to meet a large lot of unknown cattle had strongly excited us, as would have been the case with every bush-bred lad.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • And another in the saddle took a bush-bred native’s pride, 35

    Peter Simson’s Farm 1918

  • English point of view, but to the bush-bred girl it was a revelation.

    Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

  • But a plain grey dress has many a charm when the wearer has a figure of native worth and a carriage as free and graceful as that of a bush-bred girl.

    Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush G. Firth Scott 1900

  • Haddon, and a few kindred spirits composed this class; and it was sheer lust of life, the wildness of bush-bred boys, that inspired them with their irreverent impishness, although the brethren professed to discover evidence of the direct influence of a personal devil.

    The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy Edward Dyson 1898

  • Starlight let himself be talked to, and didn't say much himself; but I could see even he, that had seen a lot of high life in his time, was pleased enough with the nonsense of a couple of good-looking girls like these -- regular bush-bred fillies as they were -- after being shut up in the Hollow for a month or two.

    Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870

  • Starlight let himself be talked to, and didn’t say much himself; but I could see even he, that had seen a lot of high life in his time, was pleased enough with the nonsense of a couple of good-looking girls like these — regular bush-bred fillies as they were — after being shut up in the Hollow for a month or two.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • a large lot of unknown cattle had strongly excited us, as would have been the case with every bush-bred lad.

    Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870

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