verb. (old colloquial).—To kiss: also as subs.: cf. BUSS. [O.E.D.: ‘probably a nursery or jocular word’; Century, ‘perhaps the humorous imitation of a smack.’]
1383. CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales, ‘Wife of Bath’s Prol.,’ 433.
| How mekly loketh Wilkyn our scheep! | |
| Com ner, my spouse, let me BA thy cheke. |
d. 1529. SKELTON, My Darling dere, 27.
| With BA, BA, BA, and BAS, BAS, BAS, | |
| She cheryshed hym both cheke and chyn. | |
| Ibid., 148. | |
| BAS me, buttyng, praty Cys! |
