different between bust vs busk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophones: bussed, bused

Etymology 1

From French buste < Italian busto, from Latin b?stum.

Noun

bust (plural busts)

1. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
2. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
3. (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
4. (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
5. (slang) A disappointment.

Derived terms

• bust improver
• busty
• overbust
• underbust

Translations

Etymology 2

From a variant of burst. Compare German Low German basten and barsten (“to burst”).

Verb

bust (third-person singular simple present busts, present participle busting, simple past and past participle busted or bust)

1. (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.

   I busted my cooker while trying to fix it.

2. (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone) for a crime.
3. (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
4. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.

5. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
   • 1962, The Manchurian Candidate, 01:56:35

     If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC.

6. (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
7. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
8. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
9. (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
10. (intransitive, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen.
11. (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
    • 1990, Paul Williams, The Computerized Newspaper: A Practical Guide for Systems Users (page 105)

      The temptation to squeeze in a favourite headline that busts by using the flexibility of new technology is often very strong.

    • 2007, Rob Steen, Sports Journalism: A Multimedia Primer (page 167)

      If your headline busts (breaks the confines of the layout) you will know straightaway. Similarly, the computer will inform you, in terms of the number of lines, how much longer or shorter the copy is in relation to the space allotted.

Synonyms

• (to arrest for a crime): nick

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

bust (plural busts)

1. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.

2. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
3. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
4. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.

Derived terms

• or bust

Translations

Adjective

bust (not comparable)

1. (slang) Without any money, broke, bankrupt.

   After months of financial problems, the company finally went bust.

Derived terms

• bust up/bust-up
• busted (adjective)
• buster

Anagrams

• BTUs, TBUs, but's, buts, stub, tubs

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin b?stum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?bust/

Noun

bust m (plural busts or bustos)

1. bust (sculpture)
2. bust (breasts and upper thorax)

Further reading

• “bust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

bust

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of bussen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of bussen

Romanian

Etymology

From French buste.

Noun

bust n (plural busturi)

1. bust (sculpture)

Declension

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