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Bust vs Buss - What's the difference?

bust | buss |

As nouns the difference between bust and buss

is that bust is a sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders while buss is a kiss.

As verbs the difference between bust and buss

is that bust is to break something while buss is to kiss (either literally or figuratively).

As an adjective bust

is without any money, broke.

bust

English

(wikipedia bust)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) buste < (etyl) busto, probably from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders
  • The breasts and upper thorax of a woman
    • Derived terms
    * busty * overbust * underbust

    Etymology 2

    From the verb .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break something
  • (slang) To arrest for a crime
  • (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
  • (snowboarding) An emphatic to do
  • (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
  • * 1962 , , 01:56:35
    • If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC.
  • (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
  • (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
    • Synonyms
    ; to arrest for a crime : nick
    Derived terms
    * bust a cap * bust a gasket * bust a move * bust a nut * bust ass cold * bust loose * bust one's ass * bust one's balls * bust one's chops * bust out * bust up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation:
    • a narcotics bust
  • (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
  • (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
  • (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (slang) without any money, broke

    • Derived terms

    * bust up/bust-up * (adjective) * buster

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    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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