Also bosh. [Du. bosch a wood, BUSH.] Used by the Dutch settlers in South Africa, and thence in comb., as: bosch-bok, an antelope of South Africa, the Bush-buck; bosch-man = BUSHMAN (the word used in Holland, however, is boschjesman); boschvark, a species of wild pig in South Africa.
1786. trans. Sparrman’s Voy. Cape G. H., I. 271. The only forests in which I saw and gave chase to the bosch-bon.
1834. Pringle, Afr. Sk., 76. The boschbok oft would bound away. Ibid., iii. 161. The bosch-vark, or wood-swine, much more fierce and dangerous.
1854. H. Miller, Footpr. Creat., ix. (1874), 156. The degraded boschmen of creation.
