bussing
bussing is the present participle and gerund of bus.
bussing is the present participle and gerund of buss.
bussing is the alternative spelling of busing.
Meaning of bus
Verb (1)
bus (third-person singular simple present buses or busses, present participle busing or bussing, simple past and past participle bused or bussed)
- To transport via a motor bus.
- Because the new language school of Fu Jen University in the nearby city of Hsinchu was not yet completed, we were bused with other aspiring students of Chinese language to a farming village called Kuanhsi (Guanxi: West Pass), nestled against the tea growing hills of Hsinchu county.1999, Michael Saso, Velvet Bonds: The Chinese Family, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page ix
- To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
- But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name1966, Phil Ochs, “Love Me, I'm a Liberal”, in Phils Ochs in Concert
- To travel by bus.
Verb (2)
bus (third-person singular simple present buses or busses, present participle busing or bussing, simple past and past participle bused or bussed)
Meaning of buss
Verb (1)
buss (third-person singular simple present busses, present participle bussing, simple past and past participle bussed)
- To kiss (either literally or figuratively).
- I will thinke thou smil'st, And busse thee as thy wife.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- To kiss.
- In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.2007, James Isaiah Gabbe, LaRue's Maneuvers, Chapter 10, LaRue, The Blue Light, p259-60
Verb (2)
buss (third-person singular simple present busses, present participle bussing, simple past and past participle bussed)
Proper noun capitalized: Bussing
Bussing (plural Bussings)
- A surname from German.
Forms of bussing
| plural | Bussings |
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Origin of bussing
Borrowed from German Büssing.
Words formed from bussing
Phrases with bussing
Questions about bussing
- What does bussing mean?
- Bussing means a surname from German.
- What is bussing the present participle and gerund of?
- Bussing is the present participle and gerund of bus.
- What part of speech is bussing?
- Bussing is a proper noun.
Words near bussing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bussing (page history and authors); Bussing (page history and authors); bus (page history and authors); buss (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.
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