bussare

Uncertain, possibly from Lomardic *bauzzan ("to beat"),from Proto-West Germanic *bautan, from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd-.

• IPA^(key): /busˈsa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: bus‧sà‧re

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (intransitive)

1. to knock
   • 1973, “La casa di Hilde”, in Alice non lo sa, performed by Francesco De Gregori:

     Io mi ricordo che avevo paura / Quando bussammo alla porta / Ma lei sorrise e ci disse di entrare / Era vestita di chiaro

     I remember I was scared / When we knocked on the door / But she smiled and told us to come in / She was dressed brightly

2. (card games) in the game of tressette, to request that one's partner follow suit by rapping on the table (with the knuckles or the card in question)
3. (figurative) to ask (for money)

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• busserà, rubasse

• bussà (alt. spelling)

Compare Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

bussare

1. to knock

   Synonyms: toppetiare, tozzoliare

• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882), “bussare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano