bodewash

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Canadian French bois de vache (literally “cow wood”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bodewash (uncountable)

  1. (US, Canada, dialect, archaic) Dried buffalo or cow dung, sometimes used as fuel by pioneers.
    • , 4th edition, page 56:
      Bodewash. (Fr. bois de vache.) Dried cow-dung, used for fuel on the treeless plains of the Far West.]
    • 1897, Elliott Coues, Alexander Henry, New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry , volume 1, pages 305–6:
      We therefore gathered a quantity of dry buffalo dung [bois de vache or “bodewash”] with which we made shift to keep the mosquitoes away; our provisions required no cooking.
      (Square brackets in original)
    • 1925 October 20, William Byron Mowery, “St. Gabriel Zsbyski”, in Adventure, volume 25, number 2, page 174:
      But the apostle is done now. His press-teege is mashed flatter’n a bodewash chip.
    • 1998, Canadian Geographic‎, volume 118, page 29:
      Bodewash warmed many an early Manitoba settler.
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