or bus, verb. (once literary: now colloquial).—To kiss: also as subs. = a kiss.

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  1500–13.  SKELTON, Works [DYCE], 148. BAS me, buttyng, praty Cys!

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  1596.  SHAKESPEARE, King John, iii. 4.

        Come grin on me; and I will think thou smil’st,
And BUSS thee as thy wife.

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  1596.  DRAYTON, Baron’s Wars, C 3. And we by signs sent many a secret BUSS.

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  c. 1650.  BRATHWAITE, Drunken Barnaby’s Journal (1723), 61. With me toy’d they, BUSS’D me, cull’d me.

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  1647–8.  HERRICK, Works, 219.

        Kissing and BUSSING differ both in this;
We BUSSE our Wantons, but our Wives we kisse.

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