Synonyms for buss
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : buhs |
| Phonetic Transcription : bÊŒs |
Définition of buss
Origin :- "a kiss," 1560s; probably of imitative origin, as are Welsh and Gaelic bus "kiss, lip," French baiser "kiss" (12c., from Latin basiare), Spanish buz, German dialectal Buss.
- verb kiss
- Stay, Mr. Jessamy—must I buss her when I am introduced to her?
- Extract from : « The Contrast » by Royall Tyler
- Why, I vow, she was fire-hot angry: may be it was because I buss'd her.
- Extract from : « The Contrast » by Royall Tyler
- Vy, you may go in an omlibus for sixpence if you like; vy don't you go and buss it, marm?
- Extract from : « Burlesques » by William Makepeace Thackeray
- They had arrived in a "buss," which they had hired for the occasion.
- Extract from : « What Will He Do With It, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The drawings by Buss for "Pickwick" have fortunately been preserved.
- Extract from : « Dickens and His Illustrators » by Frederic G. Kitton
- Dear aunt, said her kinsman, let's see you buss and be friends: since 'tis so, what signifies it?
- Extract from : « Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded » by Samuel Richardson
- But there was no satisfying me; so I must go to poking out my lips after a buss.
- Extract from : « The Portland Sketch Book » by Various
- The driver of a buss is a prince of good fellows compared with a cabman.
- Extract from : « About London » by J. Ewing Ritchie
- The first pageant represented a buss, or Dutch fishing-boat, on wheels.
- Extract from : « Old and New London » by Walter Thornbury
- The remains of the Buss family, composed of three people, have already been exhumed.
- Extract from : « The Best Ghost Stories » by Various
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