bus

Clipping of omnibus. Formerly often spelt 'bus. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.

• IPA^(key): /bʌs/, enPR: bŭs
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /bʊs/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand, Scotland, Mid-Atlantic) IPA^(key): /bɐs/
  • (Northern Cities Vowel Shift, Ireland) IPA^(key): /bɔs/

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• Homophones: Buss, buss
• Rhymes: -ʌs

bus (plural buses or busses)

1. (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads; by extension, the driver of said vehicle
2. An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
3. Part of a MIRV missile, having on-board motors used to deliver the warhead to a target.
4. (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.
5. (military slang, 1910s–1940s) An aeroplane.[1]

• (electrical conductor): electrical bus, busbar, digit trunk
• (vehicle): autobus, coach, loser cruiser, motorbus, multibus, omnibus, Shillibeer (obsolete)

bus (third-person singular simple present busses or buses, present participle bussing or busing, simple past and past participle bussed or bused)

1. (transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
2. (transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
   • 1966, Phil Ochs, “Love Me, I'm a Liberal”, in Phils Ochs in Concert:

     But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name

   • 2008, Ashley R. Holm, Racial Differences in Student Engagement and Attainment: A Study of Topeka High School, 1939--1984, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 23:

     ...to strike down Detroit's federal court order to bus students across school district lines for the purpose of desegregation and therefore nullify many busing programs throughout the country.

3. (intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
4. (transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.

   He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.

   • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 13:

     He was hired to bus tables, but after a few incidents they moved him to the kitchen.

5. (intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.

   He’s been bussing for minimum wage.

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary only presents the spellings buses, busing, and bused, implying that these are the predominant forms in Canada.

• (clear meal remains): busboy

• SBU, UBS, USB, sub, sub-, sub.

Akin to Saho bus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbus/, [ˈbʊs]
• Hyphenation: bus

bús m (plural buswá f or busuusá f)

1. vagina

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “bus”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

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bus (plural busse, diminutive bussie)

1. (automotive) bus

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈbus]
• Homophone: vos (Central)

Cognate to Spanish buso (“underwater snail”) and Portuguese búzio (“underwater snail”), from Latin būcina (“horn”).

bus m or f by sense (plural bussos)

1. diver

• bussejar

Probably from Old Norse buza (“big wide ship”).

bus m (plural bussos)

1. (archaic) a large sailing ship used in the 12th and 13th centuries, broad of beam and with two or three masts

Probably from Persian بوس‎ (bus, “kiss”).

bus m (plural busos)

1. (archaic) flattery

• Only found in the phrase fer lo bus (“to kiss up”).

Clipping of autobús.

bus m (plural busos)

1. bus (vehicle)

Borrowed from English bus.

bus m (plural busos)

1. bus (electrical connector)

• “bus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Italian bus, a clipping of omnibus, from French omnibus.

bus m

1. (Luserna) bus (vehicle)

   Benn rifta dar bus? ― What time does the bus come?

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): [ˈbus]

bus m inan

1. bus (motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads)

   Synonym: autobus

• IPA^(key): [ˈbas]

bus m inan

1. (computing) bus (an electrical interface connecting two or more components)

Shortening of omnibus, from French omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).

• IPA^(key): /bus/, [b̥us]

bus c (singular definite bussen, plural indefinite busser)

1. bus, coach

• IPA^(key): /bʏs/

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• Hyphenation: bus
• Rhymes: -ʏs
• Homophone: Bus

Shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).

bus m (plural bussen, diminutive busje n)

1. (transport) bus, omnibus (vehicle)
2. (transport, in diminutive) minibus, minivan
3. bus (electrical conductor)

• → Caribbean Javanese: bis
• → Papiamentu: bùs
• → Sranan Tongo: bùs
  • → Aukan: besi
  • → Saramaccan: bési

From Middle Dutch busse, from Old Dutch *bussa, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā.

bus f (plural bussen, diminutive busje n)

1. A container, a box, a tin.
2. A bushing.
3. (chiefly historical) One of a variety of early modern firearms, such as flintlock and matchlock guns.
4. (dated, Netherlands) A voluntary sick fund, especially before the introduction of universal health care in the Netherlands in the 1940s.

• buks

• Petjo: bus
• → Indonesian: bis (“letterbox, mailbox”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Related to etymology 2.

bus

1. inflection of bussen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Clipping of omnibus.

• IPA^(key): /bys/
• Homophones: busse, busses, bussent

bus m or f (plural bus)

1. bus

   Synonym: autobus

• arrêt de bus
• bus accordéon
• bus scolaire
• service rapide par bus

Inflected forms.

• IPA^(key): /by/
• Homophones: bu, bue, bues, but, bût

bus

1. first/second-person singular past historic of boire

bus m pl

1. masculine plural of bu

• “bus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bas (Standard Malay)
• bis (nonstandard)

bus

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch bus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): [ˈbʊs]
• (dialect) IPA^(key): [ˈbɪs], [ˈbəs], [ˈbas], [ˈbɘs]
• Rhymes: -bʊs, -ʊs, -s
• Hyphenation: bus

bus (plural bus-bus, first-person possessive busku, second-person possessive busmu, third-person possessive busnya)

1. bus: a motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.

Onomatopoeic, related to embus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊs/
• Hyphenation: bus

bus (first-person possessive busku, second-person possessive busmu, third-person possessive busnya)

1. wind

• “bus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from English bus.

• IPA^(key): /bˠʊsˠ/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /bˠɞsˠ/[1]

bus m (genitive singular bus, nominative plural busanna)

1. bus
2. (computing) bus

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bus”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “bus”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Entries containing “bus” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

• IPA^(key): [bʊs]

bùs

1. third-person singular future of būti
2. third-person plural future of būti
3. third-person singular future of busti
4. third-person plural future of busti

Akin to Italian buca, ultimately from Latin bucca, whence French French bouche.

• IPA^(key): /byːs/

bus

1. hole

• IPA^(key): /buːs/

bus

1. second-person singular imperative of bies

From Proto-Celtic *bussus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell, bulge”).

bus (gender unknown)

1. (rare, poetic) lip

• Irish: pus
• Scottish Gaelic: bus

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “4 bus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*bussu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 84

bus

1. first-person singular preterite of baithe

Clipping of autobus. Calque of English bus.

• IPA^(key): /bus/

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• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: bus

bus m anim or m inan (diminutive busik)

1. (colloquial) bus (motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads)

• bus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /bus/

bus m

1. hole
   • September 2012, Daniela Cortesi, Bônanòta in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 15:

     un sorg e’ cor in priscia int e’ su bus.

     a mouse runs hastily towards its hole.

From Middle Irish bus.

• IPA^(key): /pus̪/

bus m (genitive singular buis, plural buis or busan)

1. mouth

   Synonym: beul

2. pout (facial expression)

Borrowed from English bus.

• IPA^(key): /pəs̪/

bus m (genitive singular bus, plural busaichean)

1. bus

bus ?

1. dust

Shortening of autobús (in Spain) or borrowed from English bus (in Latin America).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbus/ [ˈbus]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: bus

bus m (plural buses)

1. Clipping of autobús; bus

   Synonyms: autobús; see also Thesaurus:autobús

• In Spain, bus is a colloquial word and in Latin America it is a formal word.

• “bus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From the verb busa (“make mischief, prank”).

• IPA^(key): /bʉːs/, [bʉ͍ːs]
• Rhymes: -ʉːs

bus n (uncountable)

1. (fairly innocent) mischief (by children), pranking

   bus eller godis

   trick or treat ("mischief or candy")

2. (colloquial, chiefly in the definite "buset") criminals (on the lower rungs of the social ladder)

   att ta fast buset

   to catch the criminals

Associated with mischief and pranks by children, with ironic extensions to adults fooling around and criminality.

• busig
• buslur
• busunge
• busvissla
• NetBus

• busa (“make mischief, prank”)

• bus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• sub

Borrowed from English bus.

• Hyphenation: bus
• (common) IPA^(key): /ˈbus/, [ˈbus]
• (Taglish) IPA^(key): /ˈbas/, [ˈbas]

bus (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜐ᜔)

1. bus (vehicle)

   Synonym: awtobus

2. bus (electrical conductor)

• The pronunciation /bas/ is commonly used in Taglish speech, especially by younger speakers.

• “bus”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From English bush.

• IPA^(key): /bus/

bus

1. bush (remote rural areas)
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:25:

     God i kamapim ol kain kain animal bilong ples na ol bikpela na liklik animal bilong bus. God i lukim olgeta dispela samting i gutpela, na em i amamas.

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• bus kanaka

From Middle Dutch busch, variant of bosch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

bus n

1. forest

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Same as Dutch "bus", but is it derived from that or shortened from "omnibus" independently?”)

bus m

1. bus