Also bossing (dial.). [f. BUSS v.1 + -ING1.] Kissing.
1577. Northbrooke, Dicing (1843), 166. A very kindling of lechery, whereto serveth all that bussing.
1656. Dugard, Gate Lat. Unl., § 626. All lechery, uncomly bussings … are unchastitie and defile the mind.
1691. Ray, N. C. Wds., s.v. Osse, Ossing comes to bossing. Prov. Chesh.
1882. Tennyson, Prom. May, II. (1886), 117. Wasn’t thou and me a-bussin’ o’ one another t’other side o’ the haäycock?
