# busk
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /bʌsk/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Northern England) IPA: /bʊsk/
* Rhymes: -ʌsk

### Etymology 1

Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.

#### Verb

busk (third-person singular simple present busks, present participle busking, simple past and past participle busked)
* (intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
* (transitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
** 1827, Robert Pollok, The Course of Time:The frothy orator, who busked his tales In quackish pomp of noisy words
* (nautical) To tack, cruise about.

##### Derived terms

* busker
* busk it

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French busc, from Italian busco (“splinter”).

#### Noun

busk (plural busks)
* A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
** 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie:Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske, puffe verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelicall.
* (by extension) A corset.
** 1661, John Donne, To his Mistress going to Bed:Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.

##### Derived terms

* busked (adjective)

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Etymology unknown.

#### Noun

busk
* (obsolete) A kind of linen.
** 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 557:Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.

##### Translations
### Etymology 4

From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask.

#### Verb

busk (third-person singular simple present busks, present participle busking, simple past and past participle busked)
* (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
** c. 1724, William Hamilton, The Braes of Yarrow 2:Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride.
** 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright / And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight.
* (Northern England, Scotland) To go; to direct one's course.
** c. 1550, John Skelton, Skelton Laureate against the Scottes:Ye might have busked you to Huntly-banks.

##### Derived terms

* busking (noun)
* buskle

### Anagrams

* Buks, skub

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

### Noun

busk c (singular definite busken, plural indefinite buske)
* bush

#### Declension
### References

* “busk” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Compare with Danish busk, Swedish buske, Icelandic búskur, English bush, Dutch bos, German Busch.

### Noun

busk m (definite singular busken, indefinite plural busker, definite plural buskene)
* a bush or shrub

#### Derived terms

* kaffebusk
* solbærbusk

### References

* “busk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse buskr, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. See above for comparisons.

### Noun

busk m (definite singular busken, indefinite plural buskar, definite plural buskane)
* a bush or shrub

#### Derived terms

* solbærbusk

### References

* “busk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old High German
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bus̠k/

### Noun

busk m
* bush

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: busch, bosch
** German: Busch

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit. Cognate with Scots bisket.

### Pronunciation

* (early) IPA: /bʊsk/
* (late) IPA: /bosk/

### Noun

busk (plural buskès)
* A thick, small cake made of white meal, spiced bread.

### References

* ↑ Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎, volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 155
* ↑ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 28