busk

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bʌsk/
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  • Rhymes: -ʌsk

Etymology 1[edit]

Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.

Verb[edit]

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.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from French busc, from Italian busco (splinter).

Noun[edit]

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.
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Etymology 3[edit]

Etymology unknown.

Noun[edit]

busk

  1. (obsolete) A kind of linen.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 557:
      Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.
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Etymology 4[edit]

From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask.

Verb[edit]

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

  1. (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) To go; to direct one's course.
    • c. 1550, John Skelton, Skelton Laureate against the Scottes:
      Ye might have busked you to Huntly-banks.
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Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

busk c (singular definite busken, plural indefinite buske)

  1. bush

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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busk

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

  1. a bush or shrub

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

  1. a bush or shrub

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Old High German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

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busk m

  1. bush

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  • Middle High German: busch, bosch

Yola[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps from Middle English bisquyte.

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Noun[edit]

busk (plural buskès)

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

References[edit]

  • 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, London: J. Russell Smith, page 28