Busk

Quick meaning: Busk is a verb meaning (intransitive, especially UK) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.

Meaning

(intransitive, especially UK) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
2. (nautical) To tack, cruise about.
3. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
4. (by extension) A corset.
5. (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
6. (Northern England, Scotland) To go; to direct one's course.
7. (obsolete) A kind of linen.

Example Sentences

Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride.

Ye might have busked you to Huntly-banks.

The frothy orator, who busked his tales In quackish pomp of noisy words

Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.

Word Forms

• busks
• busking
• busked

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