buss
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; possibly ultimately imitative. Compare Arabic بُوسَة (būsa, “kiss”), Persian بوس (“kiss (present stem)”) and Latin basium (“kiss”).
Noun
buss (plural busses)
- (archaic) A kiss.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:
- Here he gave Jones a hearty buss, shook him by the hand, and took his leave.
Synonyms
- (kiss): see Thesaurus:buss
Verb
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- (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.
- c. 1616, Shakespeare, King John, (1623) iii, iv p35:
- (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.
- 2007, James Isaiah Gabbe, LaRue's Maneuvers, Chapter 10, LaRue, The Blue Light, p259-60:
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:kiss
Etymology 2
From Dutch haringbuis.
Noun
buss (plural busses)
- A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
- Macaulay
- the Dutch whalers and herring busses
- Macaulay
Etymology 3
Noun
buss (plural busses)
- Archaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).
- Omnibuses, Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
- 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.
- Omnibuses, Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
Anagrams
Estonian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
buss (genitive bussi, partitive bussi)
- bus, a vehicle to transport people
Declension
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Synonyms
Derived terms
Faroese
Noun
buss
Latvian
Noun
buss m (1st declension)
Declension
Synonyms
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)
- 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.
- Tar du buss til skolen?
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
Uncertain, perhaps akin to butt, "blunt, thick, rounded".
Noun
buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural busser, definite plural bussene)
- a quid of chewing tobacco
Usage notes
Rarely used.
References
- “buss” in The Ordnett Dictionary
- “buss” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- Online Etymology Dictionary entry on "bus"
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)
- 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.
- Tek du buss til skulen?
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
Uncertain, perhaps akin to butt, "blunt, thick, rounded".
Noun
buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)
- 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
Noun
buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)
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)
- a hopper in a mill
- an iron ring surrounding such a hopper
References
- “buss” in The Ordnett Dictionary
- “buss” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- Online Etymology Dictionary entry on "bus"
Skolt Sami
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
buss
Inflection
Even â-stem, sˈs-ss gradation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | buss | |||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | buuss | |||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | buss | buuss | ||||||||||||||||||||
Accusative | buuss | buussid | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | buuss | buussi | ||||||||||||||||||||
Illative | buʹsse | buussid | ||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | buussâst | buussin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comitative | buussin | buussivuiʹm | ||||||||||||||||||||
Abessive | buusstää | buussitää | ||||||||||||||||||||
Essive | bussân | |||||||||||||||||||||
Partitive | bussâd | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Swedish
Pronunciation
Adjective
buss (not comparable)
- like an old friend
- att vara buss med någon
- to be an old friend of someone
- att vara buss med någon
Related terms
Interjection
buss
- command to a dog to attack: get, bite, catch
- buss på tjuven!
- get the thief!
- buss på tjuven!
Noun
buss c
- a bus, a vehicle to transport people.
- kommer inte bussen snart?
- doesn't the bus ever arrive?
- kommer inte bussen snart?
- (computing) a bus
- an (old) soldier or sailor
- a portion of chewing tobacco
- han spottade ut bussen som han hade tuggat på
- he spat out the tobacco he'd been chewing
- han spottade ut bussen som han hade tuggat på
Declension
Declension of buss | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
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
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