The manager or overseer of an estate in Jamaica.
1827. Morn. Chron., 2 Aug., 2/5. So busha fum me till me most dead.
1832. M. Scott, in Blackw. Mag., XXXI. 902. The Overseer, or Busha, to give him his Jamaica name, looked at me. Ibid. (1834), Cruise Midge, xii. Gangs of negroes … waiting to receive busha’s orders for the morrow.
1866. Morning Star, 17 March. The magistrates and bushas, or overseers.
