Bushman

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A member of a native southern African people who hunt and gather food, often called San and sometimes offensive

noun
/ˈbʊʃmən/

Slur

: [Ofensivo] bosquimano

-A bushman boy, who was riding on a bicycle.

And one one of my favorite examples is the book Nisa written here at Harvard by it's an account of a Bushman woman from from the Kalahari.

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Examples

You haven't seen bushman boy riding a bike?

Magic Journey to Africa (2010)
No old bushman was going to steal from a white man.

Tracker (2010)
And, and mostly the, the mantu seem to take the Bushmen's wives.
Another example is the Bushmen of Africa who were pushed into the Kalahari desert in southern Africa.
A South African bushman.

Tracker (2010)
And one one of my favorite examples is the book Nisa written here at Harvard by it's an account of a Bushman woman from from the Kalahari.

Harvard University
And there was Lauren Vander POS's book about his childhood when he had a Bushman nanny.
The Bushman people have a rich cultural heritage that is rooted in their traditional hunting and gathering lifestyle.
In southern Africa, the Bushman community is known for its deep connection to the land and its unique skills in tracking wildlife.
Many historians study the Bushman tribes to better understand the history and culture of indigenous peoples in Africa.

Synonyms

tribesman

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A man who belongs to a group with the same culture and way of life

refers to a specific indigenous subgroup and can be outdated or offensive

Khoisan

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A group of native people in southern Africa who traditionally hunt animals and gather plants for food

refers to a single subgroup and carries outdated or offensive connotation

Surface Forms

Bushman singular

Bushmen plural

Morphology

Bushman = bush + man (semi-transparent) = bush + man

The components 'bush' + 'man' are formally transparent, but the sense is a specific ethnonym with cultural and pejorative connotations that learners may not infer from the parts alone.

Etymology

Bushman comes from bush + man, literally 'man of the bush', a simple image of a person living and hunting in the wild open land. It was used by European settlers for the native San people, but today many see Bushman as outdated or offensive and prefer the name 'San'.