Brewer's: Buss

To kiss. (Welsh, bus, the human lip; Gaelic, bus, the mouth; French, baiser, a kiss.)

You towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.

Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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