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busk
/bʌsk/
verb 5noun 3name 3
Collocations
3ADJ.
bonny, happy, kind
BUSK + NOUN
envie, ye
PREP.
with
Definitions
verb
1
To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
2
To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
The frothy orator, who busked his tales In quackish pomp of noisy words
3
To tack, cruise about.
noun
1
A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske, puffe verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelicall.
2
A corset.
Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
noun
1
A kind of linen.
Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.
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The frothy orator, who busked his tales In quackish pomp of noisy words
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Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske, puffe verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelicall.
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Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
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Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.
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Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride.
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The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright / And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight.
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