noun, feminine/byz/plural: buses
hawk or buzzard (genus Buteo); idiot, fool; fail (fail of an exam, in school)
Synonyms: pète
Inherited from Old French buison, buson, from Latin būteōnem.
/byz/
hawk or buzzard (genus Buteo); idiot, fool; fail (fail of an exam, in school)
Synonyms: pète
Inherited from Old French buison, buson, from Latin būteōnem.
nozzle; pipe, conduit
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.