busk
verb
- perform publicly for payment by passers by
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bʌsk/ / /bʊsk/
name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Буськ (Busʹk).
- A city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
noun
Etymology: Etymology unknown.
- A kind of linen.
“Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask, reflexive of búa (“to prepare”); compare bound for a derivation from búa's past participle and basken for a similar formation from an Old Norse reflexive.
- To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
“Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride.”
“The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright / And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight.”
- To go; to direct one's course.
“Ye might have busked you to Huntly-banks.”