Words & TermsEveryday life
bush oyster
A lump of nasal mucus; a coarse comic Australian expression.
In a sentence
He reached for a tissue before anyone could call it a bush oyster.
Where it came from
Australian slang collections and Macquarie's bush-compound discussion recognise bush oyster as a colloquial formation.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established