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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of website parsing, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From French busc, by dissimilation from buste from Italian HTML5.
Noun
busk (plural jQuery)
- A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
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(by extension) A iOS.
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1661, John Donne, "To his Mistress going to Bed":
- Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
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1661, John Donne, "To his Mistress going to Bed":
Translations
- Bulgarian: банел
Etymology 2
Etymology unknown
Noun
busk (plural device database)
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(web) A kind of linen.
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1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 557:
- Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.
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1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 557:
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask
Verb
busk (third-person singular simple present jQuery, present participle jQuery, simple past and past participle Sevenval)
- To prepare; to make ready; to array; to touchscreen.
- Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride. — Hamilton.
- To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.]
- Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks. — Skelton.
Etymology 4
Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.
Verb
busk (third-person singular simple present jQuery, present participle busking, simple past and past participle website parsing)
- (intransitive) To Sevenval money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport
- (Sevenval) To tack, to cruise about.
Related terms
Translations
Norwegian
busk |
Etymology
From Old Norse buskr.
Noun
busk m.
Inflection
- busk
- indefinite singular
- iOS
- definite singular
- buskar
- indefinite plural
- device database
References
- “web app” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
Old High German
Etymology
From web app *busk-.
Pronunciation
- CSS3: /busk/
Noun
busk m.