busk
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /bʌsk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - 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)
- (intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
- (transitive, 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
- (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)
- 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.
- (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.
Derived terms
[edit]- busked (adjective)
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Etymology 3
[edit]Etymology unknown.
Noun
[edit]busk
- (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.
Translations
[edit]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)
- (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
- c. 1724, William Hamilton, The Braes of Yarrow 2:
- Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride.
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
- The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright / And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight.
- (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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[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.
Noun
[edit]busk c (singular definite busken, plural indefinite buske)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- “busk” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]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)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “busk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]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)
Derived terms
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[edit]- “busk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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 busċ, *bysċ, Old Norse buskr.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]busk m
Descendants
[edit]Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit. Cognate with Scots bisket.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]busk (plural buskès)
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 28
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