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English
Etymology 1
From bus + -y (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
bussy (plural bussies)
- (informal) A bus driver.
Further reading
- Eric Partridge (2005) “bussie, noun”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 312.
- “bussie n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
Etymology 2
From bus + -y (adjective-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
bussy (comparative more bussy, superlative most bussy)
- (informal, rare) Relating to, resembling, or fond of buses.
1999 November 29, Wumpus, “sheddi plates”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):> >Sn!pe, you're weird. Ever heard the phrase 'he/she looks like the back-end
> >of a bus'? I rest my case.
Oy! That were prolly put out by the train mob, innit? ¶ You leave the Snipe alone; a bussy person in a happy person. ¶ (daft as a brushy person, n'all, but a lot saner than a trainy person.)
2006 February 23, Jpinny, “Re: Wasdale + pix”, in uk.local.cumbria (Usenet):There you go! I'm picking up the same British feeling that I have that someone hi-jacked a good word for something not very mini, and more bussy than vanny.
Etymology 3
Blend of boy + pussy or butt + pussy. See also the suffix -ussy.
Pronunciation
Noun
bussy (plural bussies)
- (gay slang, LGBT) The anus of a man.
- Synonym: boy pussy
- (gay slang, LGBT, by extension) Any anus, in general.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:anus
- (gay slang, LGBT, sometimes derogatory) The vulva or vagina of a trans man.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trans man's vagina/vulva
Translations
References
- Fielding, Lucie (2021) Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 96
Etymology 4
Adjective
bussy (comparative bussier, superlative bussiest)
- Archaic form of busy.
1762, Elizabeth Cairns, Memoirs of the Life of Elizabeth Cairns, Written By Herself ſome Years before her Death , Glasgow: Printed for John Brown , page 15:All the day-time, I was ſtill in the fields alone, with my flock; but, in the winter ſeaſons, eſpecially in the long nights, I was buſſy getting leſſons, from any that would teach me, and when ever I could read diſtinctly by myſelf, I carried my book always with me, and as I read, there ſhined a light on my mind, ſo that I was filled with wonder, at every thing I read.
1838, Robert Southey, “Madoc in Aztlan”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Collected by Himself, volume 5 (Madoc), London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, XVIII: The Victory, page 328:[…] bells of gold / Emboss’d his glittering helmet, and where’er / Their sound was heard, there lay the press of war, / And Death was bussiest there. […]