bus Sとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Uncertain. First attested in the 1560s. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰus- (“lip, to kiss”) via Proto-Germanic *busaną (compare German bussen), but in any case imitative of kissing. Compare Welsh bus (“kiss, lip”) and Irish bus (“lips, mouth”) (both may have influenced English), Persian بوس (bus, “kiss”), Latvian buča (“kiss”), Latin basium (“kiss”).

Mainstream proposals like in The Free Dictionary have suggested it is a blend of old English dialect words bass (related to French baiser) and cuss (akin to kissen); perhaps compare puss.

名詞

buss (plural busses)

1. (archaic) A kiss.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:

     Here he gave Jones a hearty buss, shook him by the hand, and took his leave.

同意語

• (kiss): see Thesaurus:buss

動詞

buss (third-person singular simple present busses, present participle bussing, simple past and past participle bussed)

1. (transitive, now often poetic or dialectal) To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     I will thinke thou smil'st, And busse thee as thy wife.

   • 1869, Richard Blackmore, Lorna Doone, page 1:

     'I take the privilege, Mistress Ruth, of saluting you.' ...And therewith I bussed her well.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 189:

     As the repatriated explorer dodges down to buss the earth […] he is so thoroughly caught up in the rhapsody of the moment that he fails to take into account the traffic behind him.

   • 2007, Winter 61, Fiddlehead:

     Sam...really was six-ten and his head bussed the ceiling.

2. (intransitive) To kiss.
   • 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.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:kiss

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: bosi
  • Aukan: bosi
  • Saramaccan: bósi

語源 2

From Dutch buis.

名詞

buss (plural busses)

1. A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     the Dutch whalers and herring busses

語源 3

名詞

buss (plural busses)

1. Archaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).
   • 1838, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses", Sketches by Boz

     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.

語源 4

Clipping of bussing.

名詞

buss (plural busses)

1. (slang) Alternative form of bussing (“enjoyable, delicious”)

参考

アナグラム

• SSBU, USBs, subs