The frothy orator, who busked his tales In quackish pomp of noisy words
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Busk
//bʌsk//
Synonyms for "busk" (2 found)
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Translations
22 translations across 18 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- Буск name (city in Ukraine)
Bulgarian
1 entries- банел noun (stiffening strip in the front of a corset)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 卖艺 verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
Finnish
2 entries- plansetti noun (stiffening strip in the front of a corset)
- esiintyä kadulla verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
French
1 entries- busc noun (stiffening strip in the front of a corset)
German
1 entries- Straßenmusik machen verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
Irish
2 entries- righneadóir (cóirséid) noun (stiffening strip in the front of a corset)
- buscáil verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
Italian
1 entries- suonare per strada verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
Latin
1 entries- aeruscō verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
Marathi
1 entries- बुस्क name (city in Ukraine)
Māori
1 entries- whakangahau pati verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
Norman
1 entries- beustchi verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
Polish
1 entries- Busk name (city in Ukraine)
Russian
2 entries- Буск name (city in Ukraine)
- играть музыку на улице verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
Spanish
2 entries- actuar ambulantemente verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
- ejecutar callejeramente verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
Swedish
1 entries- underhålla på gatan verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Буськ name (city in Ukraine)
Welsh
1 entries- clera verb (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske, puffe verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelicall.
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Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
Source: wiktionary
Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.
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