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Buss   /bəs/   Listen
noun
Buss  n.  A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.



Buss  n.  (Naut.) A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; used in the herring fishery. "The Dutch whalers and herring busses."



verb
Buss  v. t.  (past & past part. bussed; pres. part. bussing)  To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely. "Nor bussed the milking maid." "Kissing and bussing differ both in this, We buss our wantons, but our wives we kiss."






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"Buss" Quotes from Famous Books



... was a country lad That fashions strange would see, And he came to a vaulting school, Where tumblers used to be: He liked his sport so well, That from it he'd not part: His doxy to him still did cry, Come, buss ...
— The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' • Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

... all over the top with a lid of leather. His face, marked up to the eyes with the blue stubble of that beard which filled him with pride as a sign of European extraction, was swollen and hideous with drunkenness. He carried, besides the fearful blunder-buss of the night before, a belt full of pistols and hatchets. A short infantry-sword was banging away at his calves, and two long ox-horns rattled at his waist. The interpreters had been partaking of a little complimentary breakfast with the muleteers ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11, - No. 22, January, 1873 • Various

... get better too. And the long and short of it is, I've been made a new man of, inside and out; and we're going to have some real good times! And now, old girl, you've just got to give the man whose done it all a hug and a buss, and then ...
— The Golden Shoemaker - or 'Cobbler' Horn • J. W. Keyworth

... most friendly feelings toward Sidney, although influenced in his action by the statesmen who were already organizing a powerful opposition to Leicester. "Count Maurice showed himself constantly, kind in the matter of the regiment," said Sir Philip, "but Mr. Paul Buss has so many busses in his head, such as you shall find he will be to God and man about one pitch. Happy is the communication of them that join in the fear of God." Hohenlo, too, or Hollock, as he was called by the French and English, was much governed by Buys and Olden-Barneveld. ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... thought, that 'nown dear would have come so soon? I was even lying down on my bed, and dreaming of him. Tum a' me, and buss, poor ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 6 (of 18) - Limberham; Oedipus; Troilus and Cressida; The Spanish Friar • John Dryden


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