Synonyms for buss

Grammar : Verb

Spell : buhs

Phonetic Transcription : bʌs

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

Example sentences :

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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