# bussy
## English
### Etymology 1

From bus +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

#### Alternative forms

* bussie

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: bŭsʹē, IPA: /ˈbʌsi/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌsi

#### Noun

bussy (plural bussies)
* (informal) A bus driver. [since the 1940s]

#### Further reading

* Eric Partridge (2005) “bussie, noun”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 312.
* “bussie n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

### Etymology 2

From bus +‎ -y (adjective-forming suffix).

#### Alternative forms

* bus-y

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: bŭsʹē, IPA: /ˈbʌsi/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌsi

#### Adjective

bussy (comparative more bussy, superlative most bussy)
* (informal, rare) Relating to, resembling, or fond of buses.
** 1989, D. P. Sen Gupta, What on Earth is Energy? (Popular Science), New Delhi: National Council of Educational Research and Training, page 76:[in the speech bubble of a bus driver in a cartoon depicting different modes of transport:] Be a Bussy person and save fuel
** 1999 November 29, Wumpus, “sheddi plates”, in uk.rec.sheds‎ (Usenet):> >Sn!pe, you're weird. Ever heard the phrase 'he/she looks like the back-end > >of a bus'? I rest my case. Oy! That were prolly put out by the train mob, innit? ¶ You leave the Snipe alone; a bussy person in a happy person. ¶ (daft as a brushy person, n'all, but a lot saner than a trainy person.)
** 2006 February 23, Jpinny, “Re: Wasdale + pix”, in uk.local.cumbria‎ (Usenet):There you go! I'm picking up the same British feeling that I have that someone hi-jacked a good word for something not very mini, and more bussy than vanny.

### Etymology 3

Blend of boy +‎ pussy or butt +‎ pussy. See also the suffix -ussy.

#### Alternative forms

* boosay (euphemistic)

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: bo͝osʹē, IPA: /ˈbʊsi/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊsi

#### Noun

bussy (plural bussies)
* (gay slang, LGBT) The anus of a man.
    Synonym: boy pussy
* (gay slang, LGBT, by extension) Any anus, in general.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:anus
* (gay slang, LGBT, sometimes derogatory) The vulva or vagina of a trans man.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trans man's vagina/vulva

##### Translations
#### References

* Fielding, Lucie (2021) Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 96

### Etymology 4
#### Adjective

bussy (comparative bussier, superlative bussiest)
* Archaic form of busy.
** 1762, Elizabeth Cairns, Memoirs of the Life of Elizabeth Cairns, Written By Herself ſome Years before her Death […], Glasgow: Printed for John Brown […], page 15:All the day-time, I was ſtill in the fields alone, with my flock; but, in the winter ſeaſons, eſpecially in the long nights, I was buſſy getting leſſons, from any that would teach me, and when ever I could read diſtinctly by myſelf, I carried my book always with me, and as I read, there ſhined a light on my mind, ſo that I was filled with wonder, at every thing I read.
** 1838, Robert Southey, “Madoc in Aztlan”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Collected by Himself, volume 5 (Madoc), London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, XVIII: The Victory, page 328:[…] bells of gold / Emboss’d his glittering helmet, and where’er / Their sound was heard, there lay the press of war, / And Death was bussiest there. […]