name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
buss
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/bʌs/
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UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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homophone: buss
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homophone: bus
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rhymes with -ʌs
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Northern-England: /bʊs/
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homophone: Buss
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CMU ARPABET: B AH1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A kiss.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 3
A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
Archaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, archaic
Examples
- 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.
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noun
Meaning 5
Alternative form of bussing (“enjoyable, delicious”)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, slang
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noun
Meaning 6
A blunderbuss.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, slang
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verb
Meaning 7
To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, often, poetic, transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To kiss.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, slang, vulgar
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noun
Meaning 10
the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: kiss, osculation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: touch, touching
Narrower terms: smack, smooch, soul kiss, deep kiss, French kiss
verb
Meaning 11
touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The newly married couple kissed
- She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: snog, kiss, osculate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: touch
Narrower terms: smack, peck
History
Etymology
* 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.
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.
Borrowed from Dutch buis.
Clipping of bussing.
Clipping of blunderbuss.
Alternative form of bust (coda-simplification).