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BussEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* Occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French busse (“cask, barrel”). * Cognominal surname for someone rotund, like a barrel. * Toponymic surname for someone living or working near a bush or thicket of bushes, from Middle English bush. * Patronymic surname derived from a hypocoristic form of personal names beginning with Burg, such as Burghardt.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bussEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bussEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bussEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Borrowed from Dutch buis.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bussEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
Clipping of bussing.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bussEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
Clipping of blunderbuss.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bussEnglish (en) · Etymology 6Source text
Alternative form of bust (coda-simplification).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- BussEnglish · e-37683-3756
Buss, bus, n. a rude or playful kiss, a smack.—v.t. to kiss, esp. in a rude or playful manner. [M. E. bass, prob. from Old Ger. bussen, to kiss, but modified by Fr. baiser, to kiss, from L. basium, a kiss.]
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Buss, bus, n. a small two-masted Dutch vessel, used in the herring and mackerel fisheries. [O. Fr. busse, Low L. bussa; cf. Ger. büse.]
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