different between buss vs busk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s/

Homophone: bus

• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain; possibly ultimately imitative. Compare Persian ???? (b?s, “kiss”) and Latin basium (“kiss”).

Noun

buss (plural busses)

1. (archaic) A kiss.

Synonyms

• (kiss): see Thesaurus:buss

Verb

buss (third-person singular simple present busses, present participle bussing, simple past and past participle bussed)

1. (transitive) To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
   • c. 1616, William Shakespeare, King John, (1623) iii, iv p35:

     I will thinke thou smil'st, And busse thee as thy wife.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 189:

     As the repatriated explorer dodges down to buss the earth […] he is so thoroughly caught up in the rhapsody of the moment that he fails to take into account the traffic behind him.

   • 2007, Fiddlehead, Winter 61:

     Sam...really was six-ten and his head bussed the ceiling.

2. (intransitive) To kiss.
   • 2007, James Isaiah Gabbe, LaRue's Maneuvers, Chapter 10, LaRue, The Blue Light, p259-60:

     In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:kiss

Etymology 2

From Dutch haringbuis.

Noun

buss (plural busses)

1. A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.

Etymology 3

Noun

buss (plural busses)

1. Archaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).
   • 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 coolness of its cad.

Anagrams

• USBs, subs

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

buss (genitive bussi, partitive bussi)

1. bus, a vehicle to transport people

Declension

Synonyms

• autobuss

Derived terms

• autobuss
• bussijaam
• bussipeatus
• mikrobuss
• minibuss
• trollibuss
• väikebuss

Faroese

Noun

buss

1. accusative singular of bussur
2. genitive singular of bussur

Latvian

Noun

buss m (1st declension)

1. (slang) bus (vehicle)

Declension

Synonyms

• autobuss

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Either a direct shortening of Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”), or from English bus, itself a shortening of the Latin word.

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural busser, definite plural bussene)

1. bus (vehicle)

   Tar du buss til skolen?

   Do you get to school by bus? (literally: "do you take bus to the school?")

   Jeg gråter heller i en Mercedes enn på bussen, for å si det sånn. (Anne-Kat. Hærland)

   I'd rather cry in a Mercedes than on the bus, to put it that way.

Derived terms

See also

• omnibus
• bil

Etymology 2

Uncertain, perhaps akin to butt, "blunt, thick, rounded".

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural busser, definite plural bussene)

1. a quid of chewing tobacco

Usage notes

Rarely used.

References

• “buss” in The Ordnett Dictionary
• “buss” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “bus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Either a direct shortening of Latin omnibus, "for all", dative plural of omnis, "all", or from English bus, itself a shortening of the Latin word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s?/

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)

1. bus (vehicle)

   Tek du buss til skulen?

   Do you get to school by bus? (literally: "do you take bus to the school?")

   Ein buss er eit kjøretøy som er utforma for å frakte ei mengd passasjerar over ein distanse på veg eller gate. (from Nynorsk edition of Wikipedia)

   A bus is a vehicle designed to transport a group of passengers for a distance along a road or a street.

Derived terms

See also

• omnibus
• bil

Etymology 2

Uncertain, perhaps akin to butt, "blunt, thick, rounded".

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)

1. a quid of chewing tobacco

Usage notes

Rarely used.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from Low German or Dutch, compare boezem and its English cognate and equivalent bosom.

Alternative forms

• bus

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)

1. The middel, curved part of a filled sail, fishing net or seine.

Usage notes

Very rarely used.

Etymology 4

From Low German busse, "short case or ring of metal for lining of an axle, shaft or bolt".

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)

1. a hopper in a mill
2. an iron ring surrounding such a hopper

References

• “buss” in The Ordnett Dictionary
• “buss” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “bus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Skolt Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

buss

1. bus

Inflection

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s/

Adjective

buss (not comparable)

1. (dated) like an old friend

   att vara buss med någon

   to be an old friend of someone

Related terms

• bussig

Interjection

buss

1. command to a dog to attack: get, bite, catch

   buss på tjuven!

   get the thief!

Noun

buss c

1. a bus, a vehicle to transport people.

   kommer inte bussen snart?

   doesn't the bus ever arrive?

2. (computing) a bus
3. an (old) soldier or sailor
4. a portion of chewing tobacco

   han spottade ut bussen som han hade tuggat på

   he spat out the tobacco he'd been chewing

Declension

Related terms

References

• buss in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• subs

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?sk/
• Rhymes: -?sk

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French busc, by dissimilation (from buste) from Italian busto. Doublet of bust.

Noun

busk (plural busks)

1. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
   • 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie

     Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske, puffe verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelicall.

2. (by extension) A corset.
   • 1661, John Donne, "To his Mistress going to Bed":

     Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.

Translations

Etymology 2

Etymology unknown

Noun

busk

1. (obsolete) A kind of linen.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 557:

     Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask

Verb

busk (third-person singular simple present busks, present participle busking, simple past and past participle busked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
   • c. 1724, William Hamilton, The Braes of Yarrow 2

     Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride.

   • The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright / And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight.

2. (obsolete) To go; to direct one's course.
   • c. 1550, John Skelton, Skelton Laureate against the Scottes

     Ye might have busked you to Huntly-banks.

Etymology 4

Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.

Verb

busk (third-person singular simple present busks, present participle busking, simple past and past participle busked)

1. (intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
   • 1827, Robert Pollok, The Course of Time

     The frothy orator, who busked his tales
     In quackish pomp of noisy words

3. (nautical) To tack, cruise about.

Related terms

• busker

Translations

Anagrams

• Buks, skub

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Noun

busk c (singular definite busken, plural indefinite buske)

1. bush

Declension

References

• “busk” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Compare with Danish busk, Swedish buske, Icelandic búskur, English bush, Dutch bos, German Busch.

Noun

busk m (definite singular busken, indefinite plural busker, definite plural buskene)

1. a bush or shrub

Derived terms

• kaffebusk
• solbærbusk

References

• “busk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. See above for comparisons,

Noun

busk m (definite singular busken, indefinite plural buskar, definite plural buskane)

1. a bush or shrub

Derived terms

• solbærbusk

References

• “busk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to grow”). Compare Old Saxon busk, Old English busc, bysc, Old Norse buskr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bus?k/

Noun

busk m

1. bush

Descendants

• Middle High German: busch, bosch
  • German: Busch

Yola

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

busk (plural buskès)

1. a thick, small cake made of white meal, spiced bread

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN