vbl. sb. Guerilla-warfare in the bush. Also fig.
1760. in Wesley, Jrnl., 22 Nov. (1827), III. 26. You may keep up a little bush-fighting in controversy; you may skirmish awhile.
1792. Observer, 29 July, 3/1. Now the Bush-fighting will being…. Bush-fighting is a kind of an attack upon the——.
1795. Burke, Regic. Peace, iv. Pray let us leave this bush-fighting.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., I. 189. Accustomed to bush-fighting in his own country.
1837. W. Irving, Capt. Bonneville (1849), 76. The very Indian allies, though accustomed to bush-fighting, regarded it as … full of frightful danger.
