buss

Etymology 1
. . Possibly from via  (compare 🇨🇬), but in any case imitative of kissing. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 (both may have influenced English), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Mainstream proposals like in The Free Dictionary have suggested it is a blend of old English dialect words (related to 🇨🇬) and  (akin to ); perhaps compare.

Noun

 * 1)  A kiss.

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:buss

Verb

 * 1)  To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
 * 2)  To kiss.
 * 3) * 2007, James Isaiah Gabbe, LaRue's Maneuvers, Chapter 10, LaRue, The Blue Light, p259-60:
 * In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.
 * 1)  To kiss.
 * 2) * 2007, James Isaiah Gabbe, LaRue's Maneuvers, Chapter 10, LaRue, The Blue Light, p259-60:
 * In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.
 * In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:kiss

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

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

Noun

 * 1) * 1838,, "Omnibuses",
 * 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.
 * 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.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) bus

Noun

 * 1)  bus vehicle

Etymology 1
Either a direct shortening of, dative plural of , or from , itself a shortening of the Latin word.

Noun

 * 1) bus (vehicle)
 * Tar du buss til skolen?
 * Do you get to school by bus? (literally: "do you take bus to the school?")
 * Jeg gråter heller i en Mercedes enn på bussen, for å si det sånn. (Anne-Kat. Hærland)
 * I'd rather cry in a Mercedes than on the bus, to put it that way.

Etymology 2
, perhaps akin to butt, "blunt, thick, rounded".

Noun

 * 1) a quid of chewing tobacco

Usage notes
Rarely used.

Etymology 1
Either a direct shortening of, "for all", dative plural of omnis, "all", or from , itself a shortening of the Latin word.

Noun

 * 1) bus (vehicle)
 * Tek du buss til skulen?
 * Do you get to school by bus? (literally: "do you take bus to the school?")
 * Ein buss er eit kjøretøy som er utforma for å frakte ei mengd passasjerar over ein distanse på veg eller gate. ( from Nynorsk edition of Wikipedia])
 * A bus is a vehicle designed to transport a group of passengers for a distance along a road or a street.

Etymology 2
, perhaps akin to butt, "blunt, thick, rounded".

Noun

 * 1) a quid of chewing tobacco

Usage notes
Rarely used.

Etymology 3
Perhaps from Low German or Dutch, compare boezem and its English cognate and equivalent bosom.

Noun

 * 1) The middel, curved part of a filled sail, fishing net or seine.

Usage notes
Very rarely used.

Etymology 4
From, "short case or ring of metal for lining of an axle, shaft or bolt".

Noun

 * 1) a hopper in a mill
 * 2) an iron ring surrounding such a hopper

Noun

 * 1) bush

Noun

 * 1)  bus

Adjective

 * 1)  like an old friend
 * att vara buss med någon
 * to be an old friend of someone

Interjection

 * 1) command to a dog to attack: get, bite, catch
 * buss på tjuven!
 * get the thief!

Noun

 * 1) a bus, a vehicle to transport people.
 * kommer inte bussen snart?
 * doesn't the bus ever arrive?
 * 1)  a bus
 * 2) an (old) soldier or sailor
 * 3) a portion of chewing tobacco
 * han spottade ut bussen som han hade tuggat på
 * he spat out the tobacco he'd been chewing