busby
pronunciation
How to pronounce busby in British English:
UK [ˈbʌzbi]
How to pronounce busby in American English:
US [ ˈbʌzbi]
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- Noun:
- tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions
Word Origin
- busby
- busby: [18] Busby originally meant ‘large bushy wig’, and so may be related to buzz wig, a term with similar meaning current during the 19th century (and perhaps the inspiration for Sergeant Buzfuz, the lawyer in Dickens’s Pickwick Papers). The application to the full-dress fur hat worn by hussars in the British army dates from the early 19th century, but its extension to the Guards’ bearskin (still regarded as a solecism in some quarters) seems to have been a 20thcentury development.
- busby (n.)
- "fur hat worn by hussars on parade," 1807, earlier "a kind of bushy, tall wig" (1764), of unknown origin, though it is both a place name and a surname in England. Related: Busbied.
Example
- 1. What can I do for you , mr busby ?
- 2. Dean busby and his colleagues at brigham young university , in utah , however , have gathered some data which support delay .
- 3. I wondered whether busby had drawn his sample from his own university .
- 4. Busby wants to see you upstairs.ls that so ?
- 5. The next few years were to see the birth of the famed busby babes .