buss

plural busses

1. archaicA kiss.

   Here he gave Jones a hearty buss, shook him by the hand, and took his leave.

   1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII

present singular third person busses · participle present bussing · participle past bussed · past bussed

1. dialectaloftenpoetictransitiveTo kiss (either literally or figuratively).

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

   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]

   3 more examples

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

   1869, Richard Blackmore, Lorna Doone, page 1

   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.

   1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 189

   Sam...really was six-ten and his head bussed the ceiling.

   2007, Winter 61, Fiddlehead

2. intransitiveTo kiss.

   In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.

   2007, James Isaiah Gabbe, LaRue's Maneuvers, Chapter 10, LaRue, The Blue Light, p259-60

plural busses

1. A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.

   the Dutch whalers and herring busses

   1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

plural busses

1. archaicArchaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).

   1 more example

   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.

plural busses

1. alternativeslangAlternative form of bussing (“enjoyable, delicious”)

plural busses

1. archaicslangA blunderbuss.

   By the immortal powers, if you had let Rory put a few slugs into the old buss, he'd have settled the baronet's hash altogether.

   1885, F. Claudius Armstrong, The Warhawk (page 39)

present singular third person busses · participle present bussing · participle past bussed · past bussed

1. intransitiveslangvulgarTo ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.

plural Busses

1. A surname.