buss

buss \BUS\, noun: 1. A kiss; a playful kiss; a smack. transitive verb: 1. To kiss; especially to kiss with a smack. Lucky guesser gets a buss upon his plucky kisser. -- William H. Gass, Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas Exchange a random peace greeting during Mass with a stranger in the next pew and the odds are roughly one in fifty that you shake the hand or buss the cheek of a parishioner who has had at least one marriage voided by a diocesan tribunal. -- Robert H. Vasoli, What God Has Joined Together Buss is probably from Old English basse, from Latin basium, "kiss."

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