buss

See also bus, Bus, bús, and būs

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain; probably ultimately imitative.

Noun

buss (plural busses)

1. (archaic) A kiss.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book VII, chapter xiii

     Here he gave Jones a hearty buss, shook him by the hand, and took his leave.

2. A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
   • Macaulay

     The Dutch whalers and herring busses.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:kiss

Verb

buss (third-person singular simple present busses, present participle bussing, simple past and past participle bussed)

1. (transitive) To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
   • c. 1616, Shakespeare, King John, (1623) iii, iv p35:

     I will thinke thou smil'st, And busse thee as thy wife.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 189:

     As the repatriated explorer dodges down to buss the earth […] he is so thoroughly caught up in the rhapsody of the moment that he fails to take into account the traffic behind him.

   • 2007, Fiddlehead, Winter 61:

     Sam...really was six-ten and his head bussed the ceiling.

2. (intransitive) To kiss.
   • 2007, James Isaiah Gabbe, LaRue's Maneuvers, Chapter 10, LaRue, The Blue Light, p259-60:

     In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.

Anagrams

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Estonian

Noun

buss (^??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)

1. bus, a vehicle to transport people

Declension

This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• autobuss

Related terms

• auto
• bussijaam
• bussipeatus
• trollibuss
• väikebuss
• mikrobuss
• minibuss

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Faroese

Noun

buss

1. accusative singular form of bussur
2. genitive singular form of bussur

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Either a direct shortening of Latin omnibus, "for all", dative plural of omnis, "all", or from English bus, itself a shortening of the Latin word.

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen; indefinite plural busser; definite plural bussene)

1. bus (vehicle)

   Tar du buss til skolen?

   Do you get to school by bus? (literally: "do you take bus to the school?")

   Jeg gråter heller i en Mercedes enn på bussen, for å si det sånn. (Anne-Kat. Hærland)

   I'd rather cry in a Mercedes than on the bus, to put it that way.

Derived terms

• busse
• luftbuss
• skinnebuss
• skolebuss

See also

• omnibus
• bil

Etymology 2

Uncertain, perhaps akin to butt, "blunt, thick, rounded".

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen; indefinite plural busser; definite plural bussene)

1. a quid of chewing tobacco

Usage notes

Rarely used.

References

• “buss” in The Ordnett Dictionary
• “buss” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
• Online Etymology Dictionary entry on "bus"

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Either a direct shortening of Latin omnibus, "for all", dative plural of omnis, "all", or from English bus, itself a shortening of the Latin word.

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen; indefinite plural bussar; definite plural bussane)

1. bus (vehicle)

   Tek du buss til skulen?

   Do you get to school by bus? (literally: "do you take bus to the school?")

   Ein buss er eit kjøretøy som er utforma for å frakte ei mengd passasjerar over ein distanse på veg eller gate. (from Nynorsk edition of Wikipedia)

   A bus is a vehicle designed to transport a group of passengers for a distance along a road or a street.

Derived terms

• busse
• luftbuss
• skjenebuss
• skulebuss

See also

• omnibus
• bil

Etymology 2

Uncertain, perhaps akin to butt, "blunt, thick, rounded".

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen; indefinite plural bussar; definite plural bussane)

1. a quid of chewing tobacco

Usage notes

Rarely used.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from Low German or Dutch, compare boezem and its English cognate and equivalent bosom.

Alternative forms

• bus

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen; indefinite plural bussar; definite plural bussane)

1. The middel, curved part of a filled sail, fishing net or seine.

Usage notes

Very rarely used.

Etymology 4

From Low German busse, "short case or ring of metal for lining of an axle, shaft or bolt".

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen; indefinite plural bussar; definite plural bussane)

1. a hopper in a mill
2. an iron ring surrounding such a hopper

References

• “buss” in The Ordnett Dictionary
• “buss” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
• Online Etymology Dictionary entry on "bus"

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Skolt Sami

Noun

buss

1. bus

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɵs/

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Adjective

buss (not comparable)

1. like an old friend

   att vara buss med någon

   to be an old friend of someone

Related terms

• bussig

Interjection

buss

1. command to a dog to attack: get, bite, catch

   buss på tjuven!

   get the thief!

Noun

buss c

1. a bus, a vehicle to transport people.

   kommer inte bussen snart?

   doesn't the bus ever arrive?

2. (computing) a bus
3. an (old) soldier or sailor
4. a portion of chewing tobacco

   han spottade ut bussen som han hade tuggat på

   he spat out the tobacco he'd been chewing

Declension

Declension of buss

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	buss	bussen	bussar	bussarna
genitive	buss	bussens	bussars	bussarnas

Related terms

bussa bussbiljett bussbolag busschaufför bussfil bussfärd bussförare bussförbindelse bussgata busshållplats

busskort busskrock busskur busskörfält busslast busslinje bussning busspark bussresa bussresenär

bussterminal busstrafik busstur bussutflykt långfärdsbuss länsbuss mätbuss omnibus parallellbuss passagerarbuss

seriebuss sightseeingbuss sjöbuss skolbuss stadsbuss turistbuss

References

• buss in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)