buse

• IPA^(key): /byz/

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Inherited from Old French buison, buson, from Latin būteōnem.

buse f (plural buses)

1. hawk or buzzard (genus Buteo)
2. (colloquial) idiot, fool
3. (Belgium) fail (fail of an exam, in school)

• (fail at an exam) pète

• buser

buse

1. inflection of buser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Probably from Old French busel, itself from Latin būcina with a change of suffix to -el. Or from a shortening of a hypothetical earlier *bu(i)sene. Cf. the related buisine, as well as the borrowed buccine.

buse f (plural buses)

1. nozzle
2. pipe, conduit

• “buse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bues

From English abuse.

• IPA^(key): /bjuːz/

buse

1. to use foul words during an agitated argument

   She buse out she data. ― She cursed her daughter.

• Samad, Daizal R., Harripersaud, Ashwannie (2023) A Dictionary of Guyanese Words and Expressions, Blue Rose Publishers, →ISBN, page 29
• Henry, Edgar A. (2022) The Guyanese Slang Alphabet, Dorrance Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 45

buse c

1. someone uncivil and antisocial (usually a male); a ruffian

Similarly colloquial tone to ruffian. Sometimes used less seriously: Klassens buse ― The bad kid in the class

• snorbuse

• bov
• skurk

• buse in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• buse in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• buse in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Ottoman Turkish بوسه (buse), from Persian بوسه (buse, “kiss”).

buse

1. (dated) kiss, smooch

• öpücük

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “buse”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 924