busk

See also: Busk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʌsk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌsk

Etymology 1

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. (transitive, 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.

Derived terms

• busker
• busk it

 

Translations

to solicit money by entertaining the public

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卖艺 (zh) (màiyì)

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• Finnish: esiintyä kadulla
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• German: Straßenmusik machen
• Irish: buscáil
• Italian: suonare per strada
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• Latin: aeruscō
• Maori: whakangahau pati
• Norman: beustchi (Jersey)
• Russian: играть музыку на улице (igratʹ muzyku na ulice)
• Spanish: actuar ambulantemente (actor), ejecutar ambulantemente (musician)
• Swedish: underhålla på gatan
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• Welsh: clera

nautical: to tack — see tack

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French busc, from Italian busco (“splinter”).

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.

Derived terms

• busked (adjective)

 

Translations

stiffening strip in the front of a corset

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

Etymology 3

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, page 557:

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

Translations

kind of linen

Etymology 4

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. (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) 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:

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

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

     Ye might have busked you to Huntly-banks.

Derived terms

• busking (noun)
• buskle

 

Anagrams

• Buks, skub

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

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.

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.

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 busċ, *bysċ, Old Norse buskr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bus̠k/

Noun

busk m

1. bush

Descendants

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

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit. Cognate with Scots bisket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊsk/

Noun

busk (plural buskès)

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

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 28