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Yes. The word buss is a Scrabble US word. The word buss is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (2 found)

BUSS,SUBS,

3-letter words (3 found)

BUS,SUB,SUS,

2-letter words (1 found)

US,

You can make 6 words from buss according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of buss

buss ubss bsus sbus usbs subs buss ubss bsus sbus usbs subs bssu sbsu bssu sbsu ssbu ssbu ussb susb ussb susb ssub ssub

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Definitions and meaning of buss

buss

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʌs/
  • Homophones: Buss, bus
  • Rhymes: -ʌs

Etymology 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.

Noun

buss (plural busses)

  1. (archaic) A kiss.
Synonyms
  • (kiss): see Thesaurus:buss

Verb

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).
  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.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:kiss

Etymology 2

From Dutch buis.

Noun

buss (plural busses)

  1. A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.

Etymology 3

Noun

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.

See also

Anagrams

  • SSBU, USBs, subs

Estonian

Etymology

Clipping of autobuss.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈb̥usʲː/, [ˈb̥usʲː]
  • Rhymes: -usʲː
  • Hyphenation: buss

Noun

buss (genitive bussi, partitive bussi)

  1. bus

Declension

Compounds

References

  • buss in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “buss”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Faroese

Noun

buss

  1. accusative singular of bussur
  2. genitive singular of bussur

Latvian

Noun

buss m (1st declension)

  1. (slang) bus (vehicle)

Declension

Synonyms

  • autobuss

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Either a direct shortening of Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”), or from English bus, itself a shortening of the Latin word.

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural busser, definite plural bussene)

  1. bus (vehicle)
    Tar du buss til skolen?
    Do you get to school by bus? (literally: "do you take bus to the school?")
    Jeg gråter heller i en Mercedes enn på bussen, for å si det sånn. (Anne-Kat. Hærland)
    I'd rather cry in a Mercedes than on the bus, to put it that way.
Derived terms

See also

  • omnibus
  • bil

Etymology 2

Uncertain, perhaps akin to butt, "blunt, thick, rounded".

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural busser, definite plural bussene)

  1. a quid of chewing tobacco
Usage notes

Rarely used.

References

  • “buss” in The Ordnett Dictionary
  • “buss” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Either a direct shortening of Latin omnibus, "for all", dative plural of omnis, "all", or from English bus, itself a shortening of the Latin word.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʉsː/

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)

  1. bus (vehicle)
    Tek du buss til skulen?
    Do you get to school by bus? (literally: "do you take bus to the school?")
    Ein buss er eit kjøretøy som er utforma for å frakte ei mengd passasjerar over ein distanse på veg eller gate. (Buss from Nynorsk edition of Wikipedia])
    A bus is a vehicle designed to transport a group of passengers for a distance along a road or a street.
Derived terms

See also

  • omnibus
  • bil

Etymology 2

Uncertain, perhaps akin to butt, "blunt, thick, rounded".

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)

  1. a quid of chewing tobacco
Usage notes

Rarely used.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from Low German or Dutch, compare boezem and its English cognate and equivalent bosom.

Alternative forms

  • bus

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)

  1. The middel, curved part of a filled sail, fishing net or seine.
Usage notes

Very rarely used.

Etymology 4

From Low German busse, "short case or ring of metal for lining of an axle, shaft or bolt".

Noun

buss m (definite singular bussen, indefinite plural bussar, definite plural bussane)

  1. a hopper in a mill
  2. an iron ring surrounding such a hopper

References

  • “buss” in The Ordnett Dictionary
  • “buss” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Scots

Noun

buss

  1. bush

Skolt Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

buss

  1. bus

Inflection

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɵs/

Adjective

buss (not comparable)

  1. (dated) like an old friend
    att vara buss med någon
    to be an old friend of someone

Related terms

  • bussig

Interjection

buss

  1. command to a dog to attack: get, bite, catch
    buss på tjuven!
    get the thief!

Noun

buss c

  1. a bus, a vehicle to transport people.
    kommer inte bussen snart?
    doesn't the bus ever arrive?
  2. (computing) a bus
  3. an (old) soldier or sailor
  4. a portion of chewing tobacco
    han spottade ut bussen som han hade tuggat på
    he spat out the tobacco he'd been chewing

Declension

Related terms

References

  • buss in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

  • subs

Source: wiktionary.org