busker
pronunciation
How to pronounce busker in British English:
UK ['bʌskə(r)]
How to pronounce busker in American English:
US ['bʌskə(r)]
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- Noun:
- a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing)
Word Origin
- busker (n.)
- "itinerant entertainer," 1857, from busk (v.) "to offer goods for sale only in bars and taprooms," 1851 (in Mayhew), perhaps from busk "to cruise as a pirate," which was used in a figurative sense by 1841, in reference to people living shiftless and peripatetic lives. Busker has been mistakenly derived from buskin in the stage sense.
Example
- 1. You can also hear him tapping his foot and standing on a tambourine like a busker .
- 2. I refuse to give money to any busker playing simon and garfunkel .
- 3. A busker is someone who performs music or an act on the street .
- 4. Darren snow , an english teacher in beijing , talked about his experience as a busker .
- 5. I 'll become a busker , I think . You get to sing what you like , no one 's out to get you .