adj. (colloquial).Large: thus a BUSHEL-WIG; BUSHEL-BUBBIES; BUSHEL-BREECHES, etc.
1796. WOLCOT, Peter Pindar [Works, 226].
When judges a campaigning go, | |
And on their benches look so big, | |
What gives them consequence, I trow, | |
Is nothing but a BUSHEL WIG. |
1837. CARLYLE, The French Revolution, II, I, xi. The snowy linen and delicate pantaloon alternates with the soiled check shirt and BUSHEL BREECHES.