motorbus

English

Etymology

motor +‎ bus

Noun

motorbus (plural motorbuses or motorbusses)

1. A motorised bus, or coach.
   • 1912, Pearson’s Magazine‎^[1], page 753:

     “[…] a motor-’bus scorching round into the Square from the Haymarket was swept into the air, and shivered into fragments.” “Professor,” I exclaimed, “a motor-’bus!” “I know how impossible it must sound,” said Professor Henry Tellurin, […]

   • 1930 October 11, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “One Trip Abroad”, in The Saturday Evening Post:

     In the afternoon the air became black with locusts, and some of the women shrieked, sinking to the floor of the motorbus and covering their hair with traveling rugs.

   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 4:

     The world beyond the sugarcane fields was remote and the village was linked to it only by villagers’ carts and bicycles, wholesalers’ vans and lorries, and an occasional private motorbus that ran to no timetable and along no fixed route.

Synonyms

• autobus, bus, coach, loser cruiser, motorcoach, omnibus