busk

See also: Busk

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for busk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʌsk/
  • Rhymes: -ʌsk

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French busc, by dissimilation (from buste) from Italian busto.

Noun

busk (plural busks)

  1. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
    • Marston
      Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelical.
  2. (by extension) A corset.
    • 1661, John Donne, "To his Mistress going to Bed":
      Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
Translations

Etymology 2

Etymology unknown

Noun

busk (plural busks)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of linen.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 557:
      Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask

Verb

busk (third-person singular simple present busks, present participle busking, simple past and past participle busked)

  1. To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
    Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride. — Hamilton.
    The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright
    And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight. — Fairfax.
  2. To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.]
    Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks. — Skelton.

Etymology 4

Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.

Verb

busk (third-person singular simple present busks, present participle busking, simple past and past participle busked)

  1. (intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport
  2. (nautical) To tack, cruise about.
Translations

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Noun

busk c (singular definite busken, plural indefinite buske)

  1. bush

Declension

References

Norwegian Bokmål

busk

Etymology

From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Compare with Danish busk, Swedish buske, Icelandic búskur, English bush, Dutch bos, German Busch.

Noun

busk m (definite singular busken, indefinite plural busker, definite plural buskene)

  1. a bush or shrub

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. See above for comparisons,

Noun

busk m (definite singular busken, indefinite plural buskar, definite plural buskane)

  1. a bush or shrub

Derived terms

References

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *buskaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Compare Old Saxon busk, Old English busc, bysc, Old Norse buskr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bus̠k/

Noun

busk m

  1. bush

Descendants

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