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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



... the nurse, and during a pause, Her dead-leaf satin would fitly cause A very autumnal rustle— So full of figure, so full of fuss, As she carried about the babe to buss, She seem'd to be ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

... clear brow, and bestowed his usual "buss," as he called it, on granny's withered cheek; then shouldering his oilskin coat, he took his way towards the landing-place at the mouth of ...
— Michael Penguyne - Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast • William H. G. Kingston

... usually called by Fritz Gissibl, head of the "Friends of the New Germany,"[10] were Armstrong, Captain Victor DeKayville, J.K. Leibl (who organized an underground Nazi clique in South Bend, Ind.), Oscar Pfaus, Nick Mueller, Toni Mueller, Jose Martini, Franz Schaeffer and Gregor Buss. When Gissibl couldn't attend, his right-hand man ...
— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak

... winter night, The stars shot down wi' sklentin light, Wi' you, mysel' I gat a fright, Ayont the lough; Ye, like a rash-buss, stood in ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... John, "I was ae day here i' the gairden —an' I was jist graftin' a bonny wull rose buss wi' a Hector o' France—an' it grew to be the bonniest rose buss in a' the haul gairden—whan the markis, no the auld markis, but my leddy's father, cam' up the walk there, an' a bonny young leddy wi' his lordship, as it micht be yersel's twa—an' I beg yer ...
— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald


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