busk
pronunciation
How to pronounce busk in British English:
UK [bʌsk]
How to pronounce busk in American English:
US [bʌsk]
Word Origin
- busk (n.)
- "strip of wood, whalebone, etc., used in corset-making," 1590s, probably from French busc (16c.), from Italian bosco "splinter," of Germanic origin (see bush (n.)).
- busk (v.)
- "to prepare, to dress oneself," also "to go, set out," c. 1300, probably from Old Norse buask "to prepare oneself," reflexive of bua "to prepare" (see bound (adj.2)) + contraction of Old Norse reflexive pronoun sik. Most common in northern Middle English and surviving chiefly in Scottish and northern English dialect. Related boun had the same senses in northern and Scottish Middle English. Related: Busked; busking. The nautical term is attested from 1660s (in a general sense of "to tack, to beat to windward"), apparently from obsolete French busquer "to shift, filch, prowl," which is related to Italian buscare "to filch, prowl," Spanish buscar (from Old Spanish boscar), perhaps originally from bosco "wood" (see bush (n.)), with a hunting notion of "beating a wood" to flush game.
Example
- 1. But I did busk in a few cities .
- 2. My daughter used to busk , but her amplifiers broke .
- 3. I busk outside a railway station at night .
- 4. A lot of music students busk in their vacation to earn some extra money .
- 5. Even in areas where it namely legal to busk , determine that whether you paint a audience you won 't end up impeding traffic .