bushman

noun

1. (Australia)A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.

   “Near-synonym: bushcrafter”

   “An occasional Afghan makes a good bushman. These rare birds, with the help of natives, found that by winding in and out over the soft ground of the valleys they could bring a camel-train where no wheeled transport could go.”

   “To A. B. Paterson, son of a dispossessed squatter, writing from a city office, the bushmen with their horses and simple skills were the backbone of Australia.”

   “Its^([the Bulletin's]) writers shaped ‘a group myth about Australians and their destiny’; in the absence of conventional heroes, visiting the past to claim the bushman as the first ‘Australian’, the anti-hero in the struggles against empire.”

   “Later, historian Russel Ward (1958) famously identified the outback bushman as the “typical” Australian – a rugged individualist, courageous and loyal to his mates.”

2. A person who lives in the bush, especially a member of a community or ethnic group who lives in the bush.
3. (offensive, sometimes)A member of one of the foraging ethnic groups native to southwestern Africa, mostly the Kalahari.