buss

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A kiss. This word, once of sufficient dignity to be used by our dramatic authors, has now become so obsolete as to be heard only from the vulgar.


Come, grin on me; and I will think thou smil'st,

And buss thee as my wife --Shakspeare, K. John, iii. 4.

Kissing and bussing differ both in this,

We buss our wantons, but our wives we kiss.--Herrick's Works, p. 219.

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