Buss
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buss¹
- /bʌs/
- /bʊs/ Northern England
Sounds like Buss, bus · Rhymes with -ʌs
Where it comes from
Uncertain. First attested in the 1560s. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰus- (“lip, to kiss”) via Proto-Germanic *busaną (compare German bussen), but in any case imitative of kissing. Compare Welsh bus (“kiss, lip”) and Irish bus (“lips, mouth”) (both may have influenced English), Persian بوس (bus, “kiss”), Latvian buča (“kiss”), Latin basium (“kiss”).
Mainstream proposals like in The Free Dictionary have suggested it is a blend of old English dialect words bass (related to French baiser) and cuss (akin to kissen); perhaps compare puss.
noun busses
- A kiss. Here he gave Jones a hearty buss, shook him by the hand, and took his leave.
verb busses · bussing · bussed
- To kiss (either literally or figuratively). I will thinke thou smil'st, And busse thee as thy wife.
- To kiss. In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.
buss²
- /bʌs/
- /bʊs/ Northern England
Sounds like Buss, bus · Rhymes with -ʌs
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Dutch buis.
noun busses
- A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing. the Dutch whalers and herring busses
buss³
- /bʌs/
- /bʊs/ Northern England
Sounds like Buss, bus · Rhymes with -ʌs
noun busses
- Archaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).bus 1838, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses", Sketches by Boz We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolne
buss⁴
- /bʌs/
- /bʊs/ Northern England
Sounds like Buss, bus · Rhymes with -ʌs
Where it comes from
Clipping of bussing.
noun busses
- Alternative form of bussing (“enjoyable, delicious”)bussing
buss⁵
- /bʌs/
- /bʊs/ Northern England
Sounds like Buss, bus · Rhymes with -ʌs
Where it comes from
Clipping of blunderbuss.
noun busses
- A blunderbuss. By the immortal powers, if you had let Rory put a few slugs into the old buss, he'd have settled the baronet's hash altogether.
verb busses · bussing · bussed
- To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
Buss⁶
- /bʌs/
Sounds like buss, bus · Rhymes with -ʌs
Where it comes from
* Occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French busse (“cask, barrel”).
* Cognominal surname for someone rotund, like a barrel.
* Toponymic surname for someone living or working near a bush or thicket of bushes, from Middle English bush.
* Patronymic surname derived from a hypocoristic form of personal names beginning with Burg, such as Burghardt.
proper noun Busses
- A surname.
