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Rustic bushes the woman’s discounted as pain in the bum (7)

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I believe the answer is:

bucolic

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'rustic' is the definition.
(I know that bucolic is a type of rustic)

'bushes the woman's discounted as pain in the bum' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'pain' could be 'colic' (colic is a kind of pain) and 'colic' is present in the answer.
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(Other definitions for bucolic that I've seen before include "Pastoral poem" , "Agrarian" , "Relating to rural life" , "Of rural or pastoral life" , "Rustic - pastoral" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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