"Buss" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /bʌs/ Audio: en-Buss.ogg [UK] Forms: Busses [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌs Etymology: * Occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French busse (“cask, barrel”). * Cognominal surname for someone rotund, like a barrel. * Toponymic surname for someone living or working near a bush or thicket of bushes, from Middle English bush. * Patronymic surname derived from a hypocoristic form of personal names beginning with Burg, such as Burghardt. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|busse||cask, barrel}} Old French busse (“cask, barrel”), {{der|en|enm|bush}} Middle English bush Head templates: {{en-proper noun|es}} Buss (plural Busses)
  1. A surname.

Inflected forms

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