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a public verbal gaffe by United States President George W

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a sort of semi-random combination of words that Bush frequently creates in rough correspondence to actual English words he can't remember

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a verbal slip made by President George W

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a word , phrase , or other grammatical configuration unique to the style of President George W

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A Bushism is any of a number of peculiar words, phrases, pronunciations, semantic or linguistic errors that have occurred in the public speaking of United States Presidents George H. W. Bush and his son George W. Bush and subsequently used in caricatures of them.

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