Word.ws English Dictionary

bussick

/ˈbʌsˌsɪk/

bussick adjective: suffering from sickness, nausea or dizziness due to the motion of a bus.

Adjective

bussick (comparative more bussick, superlative most bussick)

  1. Suffering from sickness, nausea or dizziness due to the motion of a bus.
    • It's no good to travel by land, he says to himself. You get bussick and empty and dusty.1963, Alberto D. Benipayo, Comment, number 18, page 21
    • "What do you think Izzy is doing right now?" Emma wondered aloud.
      "Not sitting in a bus filled with five-year-olds,” Harriet said, “praying one of them doesn't get bussick."2019, Sheryl Berk, Frenemies

Forms of bussick

comparativemore bussick
superlativemost bussick
alternative formbus-sick

Origin of bussick

From bus + sick.

Questions about bussick

What does bussick mean?
Bussick means suffering from sickness, nausea or dizziness due to the motion of a bus.
What part of speech is bussick?
Bussick is an adjective.
How do you pronounce bussick?
Bussick is pronounced /ˈbʌsˌsɪk/.

Words near bussick in the dictionary

  1. busses
  2. busses down
  3. Bussey
  4. Busseys
  5. Bussi-Donadio-Parrinello thermostat
  6. bussick
  7. bussie
  8. bussier
  9. Bussiere
  10. Bussieres
  11. bussies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bussick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bussick.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bussick. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.