• IPA: /bʌs/

buss (plural busses)

1. (archaic) A kiss.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗, book VII:

• (kiss) see Thesaurus:buss

buss (busses, present participle bussing; past and past participle bussed)

1. (transitive) To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
   • c. 1616, William 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.

2. (intransitive) 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.

• See also Thesaurus:kiss

buss (plural busses)

1. A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 19, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

buss (plural busses)

1. Archaic form of bus#English|bus (“passenger vehicle”).
   • 1838, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses", Sketches by Boz

     We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.