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 Buskin.Busterich. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Buss.
 
To kiss. (Welsh, bus, the human lip; Gaelic, bus, the mouth; French, baiser, a kiss.)   1
       
“Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,
Must kiss their own feet.”
       
Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5.
 


 Buskin.Busterich. 

 
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