[hpsdr] Kissing the BUSS goodby while getting on the BUS

[Larry Taft]

Buss \BUS\, /noun/:
*1.* A kiss; a playful kiss; a smack.

/transitive verb/:
*1.* To kiss; especially to kiss with a smack.

    Lucky guesser gets a *buss* upon his plucky kisser.
    -- William H. Gass, Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas
    <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465026206/ref=nosim/lexico>

    Exchange a random peace greeting during Mass with a stranger in the
    next pew and the odds are roughly one in fifty that you shake the
    hand or *buss* the cheek of a parishioner who has had at least one
    marriage voided by a diocesan tribunal.
    -- Robert H. Vasoli, What God Has Joined Together
    <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195107640/ref=nosim/lexico>

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/Buss/ is probably from Old English /basse/, from Latin /basium/, "kiss."

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    6 entries found for /bus/.

*bus*   Audio pronunciation of "bus" 
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<http://dictionary.reference.com/help/ahd4/pronkey.html>  (bs) /n./ 
/pl./ *bus·es *or *bus·ses*

   1. A long motor vehicle for carrying passengers, usually along a
      fixed route.
   2. _/Informal./_ A large or ungainly automobile.
   3. A four-wheeled cart for carrying dishes in a restaurant.
   4. _/Electricity./_ A bus bar.
   5. _/Computer Science./_ A parallel circuit that connects the major
      components of a computer, allowing the transfer of electric
      impulses from one connected component to any other.


/v./ *bused,* or *bussed* *bus·ing,* or *bus·sing* *bus·es *or *bus·ses*
/v./ /tr./

   1. To transport in a bus.
   2. To transport (schoolchildren) by bus to schools outside their
      neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving racial integration.
   3.
         1. To carry or clear (dishes) in a restaurant.
         2. To clear dishes from (a table).


/v./ /intr./

   1. To travel in a bus.
   2. To work as a busboy.


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[Short for *omnibus*. V., intr., sense 2, back-formation from *busboy*.]

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