buss

See also: Buss and Appendix:Variations of "bus"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʌs/

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• Homophones: Buss, bus
• Rhymes: -ʌs

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

buss (plural busses)

1. (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

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

1. (transitive, now often poetic or dialectal) To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

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

   • 1869, Richard Blackmore, Lorna Doone, page 1:

     'I take the privilege, Mistress Ruth, of saluting you.' ...And therewith I bussed her well.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 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, Winter 61, Fiddlehead:

     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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:kiss

Etymology 2

From Dutch buis.

Noun

buss (plural busses)

1. A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 19, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     the Dutch whalers and herring busses

Etymology 3

Noun

buss (plural busses)

1. Archaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).
   • 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.

See also

• buss down
• buss-down

 

Anagrams

• SSBU, USBs, subs

Estonian

Etymology

Clipping of autobuss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈb̥usʲː/, [ˈb̥usʲː]
• Rhymes: -usʲː
• Hyphenation: buss

Noun

buss (genitive bussi, partitive bussi)

1. bus

Declension

Declension of buss (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		buss	bussid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	bussi
genitive			busside
partitive		bussi	busse bussisid
illative		bussi bussisse	bussidesse bussesse
inessive		bussis	bussides busses
elative		bussist	bussidest bussest
allative		bussile	bussidele bussele
adessive		bussil	bussidel bussel
ablative		bussilt	bussidelt busselt
translative		bussiks	bussideks busseks
terminative		bussini	bussideni
essive		bussina	bussidena
abessive		bussita	bussideta
comitative		bussiga	bussidega

Compounds

• bussijaam
• bussipeatus

 

• autobuss
• mikrobuss
• minibuss
• trollibuss
• väikebuss

 

References

• buss in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “buss”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Faroese

Noun

buss

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

Latvian

Noun

buss m (1st declension)

1. (slang) bus (vehicle)

Declension

Declension of buss (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	buss	busi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	busu	busus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	busa	busu
dative (datīvs)	busam	busiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	busu	busiem
locative (lokatīvs)	busā	busos
vocative (vokatīvs)	bus	busi

Synonyms

• autobuss

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

• buss-skur, busskur
• busse
• bussjåfør, buss-sjåfør
• bussrute
• busstasjon
• busstur
• ekspressbuss
• kirkebuss
• leddbuss
• luftbuss
• minibuss
• skinnebuss
• skolebuss
• skyttelbuss
• trolleybuss
• turbuss
• turistbuss

 

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.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /bʉsː/

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. (Buss 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

• buss-skur, busskur
• busse
• bussjåfør, buss-sjåfør
• bussrute
• busstasjon
• busstur
• ekspressbuss
• kyrkjebuss
• leddbuss
• luftbuss
• minibuss
• skjenebuss
• skolebuss
• skulebuss
• skyttelbuss
• trolleybuss
• turbuss
• turistbuss

 

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 Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Scots

Noun

buss

1. bush

Skolt Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

buss

1. bus

Inflection

Even â-stem, sˈs-ss gradation
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
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person — — — 2nd person — — — 3rd person — — —

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɵs/

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Adjective

buss (not comparable)

1. (dated) 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
	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
• parkera bussen
• passagerarbuss
• seriebuss
• sightseeingbuss
• sjöbuss
• skolbuss
• stadsbuss
• turistbuss

 

References

• buss in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• subs