buss

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

busses

1.
(archaic)A kiss.
2.
A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
3.
(alt of, archaic)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.
4.
(alt of, alternative, slang)Alternative form of bussing (“enjoyable, delicious”)
5.
(archaic, slang)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.

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verb

V_es/s

busses

V_ing/Gerund

bussing

V_ed/pp

bussed

1.
(dialectal, often, poetic, transitive)(transitive, now often poetic or dialectal) To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
2.
(intransitive)To kiss.
In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.

Nguồn gốc từ

. 1560s. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰus- (lip, to kiss) via Proto-Germanic *busaną (compare bussen), but in any case imitative of kissing. Compare bus and bus (both may have influenced English), بوس, buča, basium.