busk

busk

See also: Busk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʌsk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌsk

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French busc, by dissimilation (from buste) from Italian busto. Doublet of bust.

Noun

busk (plural busks)

1. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
   • 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie

     Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske, puffe verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelicall.

2. (by extension) A corset.
   • 1661, John Donne, "To his Mistress going to Bed":

     Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.

Translations

stiffening strip in the front of a corset

Bulgarian: банел (banel) Finnish: plansetti French: busc (fr) m Irish: righneadóir (cóirséid) m

Etymology 2

Etymology unknown

Noun

busk

1. (obsolete) A kind of linen.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 557:

     Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.

Translations

kind of linen

Etymology 3

From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask.

Verb

busk (third-person singular simple present busks, present participle busking, simple past and past participle busked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
   • c. 1724, William Hamilton, The Braes of Yarrow 2

     Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride.

   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, OCLC 940138160:

     The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright / And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight.

2. (obsolete) To go; to direct one's course.
   • c. 1550, John Skelton, Skelton Laureate against the Scottes

     Ye might have busked you to Huntly-banks.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for busk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Etymology 4

Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.

Verb

busk (third-person singular simple present busks, present participle busking, simple past and past participle busked)

1. (intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
   • 1827, Robert Pollok, The Course of Time

     The frothy orator, who busked his tales
     In quackish pomp of noisy words

3. (nautical) To tack, cruise about.

Related terms

• busker

Translations

to solicit money by entertaining the public

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: esiintyä kadulla French: please add this translation if you can Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Straßenmusik machen Irish: buscáil Italian: suonare per strada Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Latin: aeruscō Maori: whakangahau pati Norman: beustchi (Jersey) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: underhålla på gatan Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Welsh: clera

nautical: to tack — see tack

Anagrams

• Buks, skub

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Noun

busk c (singular definite busken, plural indefinite buske)

1. bush

Declension

Declension of busk

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	busk	busken	buske	buskene
genitive	busks	buskens	buskes	buskenes

References

• “busk” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Norwegian Bokmål

busk

Etymology

From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Compare with Danish busk, Swedish buske, Icelandic búskur, English bush, Dutch bos, German Busch.

Noun

busk m (definite singular busken, indefinite plural busker, definite plural buskene)

1. a bush or shrub

Derived terms

• kaffebusk
• solbærbusk

References

• “busk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. See above for comparisons.

Noun

busk m (definite singular busken, indefinite plural buskar, definite plural buskane)

1. a bush or shrub

Derived terms

• solbærbusk

References

• “busk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Compare Old Saxon busk, Old English busc, bysc, Old Norse buskr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bus̠k/

Noun

busk m

1. bush

Descendants

• Middle High German: busch, bosch
  • German: Busch

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Yola

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle English bisquyte.

Noun

busk (plural buskès)

1. A thick, small cake made of white meal, spiced bread.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 28