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Busk
Definitions
- 1 A feast of first fruits among the Creek tribe of Native Americans, celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten.
- 2 A surname.
- 3 A city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
- 1 A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
"Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske, puffe verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelicall."
- 2 A kind of linen. obsolete
"Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards."
- 3 A corset. broadly
"Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh."
- 1 To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport. UK, especially, intransitive
- 2 To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. Northern-England, Scotland, transitive
"Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride."
- 3 play music in a public place and solicit money for it wordnet
- 4 To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc. obsolete, transitive
"The frothy orator, who busked his tales In quackish pomp of noisy words"
- 5 To go; to direct one's course. Northern-England, Scotland
"Ye might have busked you to Huntly-banks."
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- 6 To tack, cruise about.
Etymology
Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.
Borrowed from French busc, from Italian busco (“splinter”).
Etymology unknown.
From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask, reflexive of búa (“to prepare”); compare bound for a derivation from búa's past participle and basken for a similar formation from an Old Norse reflexive.
From Creek puskita, pusketv (“a fast”).
Borrowed from Danish and Swedish Busk; alternatively, it could be an English topographic surname for someone who lived by a bush, from Old Norse buskr (“bush”).
From Ukrainian Буськ (Busʹk).
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