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Buss

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To kiss. (Welsh, bus, the human lip; Gaelic, bus, the mouth; French, baiser, a kiss.)

“Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,

Must kiss their own feet.”


Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bush
Bushel
Bushman (Dutch, Boschjesman)
Bushrangers
Business, Busy
Business To-morrow
Busirane
Busiris
Buskin
Buss
Busterich
Busy as a Bee
Butcher
Butcher Boots
Butter
Butter-fingers
Butter-tooth (A)
Buttered Ale
Buttercups
Butterflies