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Buss vs Muss - What's the difference?

buss | muss |

As verbs the difference between buss and muss

is that buss is to kiss (either literally or figuratively) while muss is .

As a noun buss

is (archaic) a kiss.

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.

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    muss

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (es)
  • to rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy

    • Noun

    (es)
  • a disorderly mess
  • (obsolete) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) . See mouse.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete)
    • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913)

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