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Buss vs Cuss - What's the difference?

buss | cuss |

As nouns the difference between buss and cuss

is that buss is (archaic) a kiss while cuss is a curse or cuss can be a fellow, person.

As verbs the difference between buss and cuss

is that buss is to kiss (either literally or figuratively) while cuss is to use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.

buss

English

Noun

(es)
  • (archaic) A kiss.
  • *
    • Here he gave Jones a hearty buss , shook him by the hand, and took his leave.
  • A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
  • * Macaulay
    • The Dutch whalers and herring busses .

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (es)
  • To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
  • * c. 1616 , Shakespeare, King John , (1623) iii, iv p35:
    • I will thinke thou smil'st, And busse thee as thy wife.
  • * 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 189:
    • As the repatriated explorer dodges down to buss the earth […] he is so thoroughly caught up in the rhapsody of the moment that he fails to take into account the traffic behind him.
  • * 2007 , Fiddlehead, Winter 61 :
    • Sam...really was six-ten and his head bussed the ceiling.
  • 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.

    Anagrams

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    cuss

    English

    Etymology 1

    American English dialect pronunciation of (m).

    Verb

    (es)
  • To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.
    • Derived terms
    * cuss out

    Noun

    (cusses)
  • A curse.
  • A curse word.

    • Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

    (cusses)
  • A fellow, person.