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BuskEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Creek puskita, pusketv (“a fast”).
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Borrowed from Danish and Swedish Busk; alternatively, it could be an English topographic surname for someone who lived by a bush, from Old Norse buskr (“bush”).
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From Ukrainian Буськ (Busʹk).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗buskEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗buskEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Borrowed from French busc, from Italian busco (“splinter”).
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Etymology unknown.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗buskEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask, reflexive of búa (“to prepare”); compare bound for a derivation from búa's past participle and basken for a similar formation from an Old Norse reflexive.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- BuskEnglish · e-37683-3750
Busk, busk, v.t. or v.i. to prepare: to dress one's self. [Ice. búa, to prepare, and -sk, contr. of sik, the recip. pron.—self.]
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Busk, busk, n. the piece of bone, wood, or steel in the front of a woman's stays: a corset.—adj. Busked. [Fr. busc, which Scheler thinks a doublet of bois; Littré, the same as It. busto, a bust.]
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Busk, busk, v.i. (naut.) to cruise along a shore, to beat about: to seek. [Prob. Sp. buscar, to seek.]
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