Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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A feast of first fruits among the Creek tribe of Native Americans, celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten.
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name
A surname.
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name
A city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
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noun
A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
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noun
A corset.
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Usage: broadly
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noun
A kind of linen.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
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Usage: UK, especially, intransitive
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verb
To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To tack, cruise about.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
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Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, transitive
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verb
To go; to direct one's course.
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verb
play music in a public place and solicit money for it
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Broader terms: play
History
From Creek puskita, pusketv (“a fast”).
Borrowed from Danish and Swedish Busk; alternatively, it could be an English topographic surname for someone who lived by a bush, from Old Norse buskr (“bush”).
From Ukrainian Буськ (Busʹk).
Borrowed from French busc, from Italian busco (“splinter”).
Etymology unknown.
Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.
From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask, reflexive of búa (“to prepare”); compare bound for a derivation from búa's past participle and basken for a similar formation from an Old Norse reflexive.
Across languages
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
