buss, v.¹ — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

buss v.¹

[SE buss, a kiss]

1. (UK Und.) to steal; thus n. a theft.

1753		J. Poulter Discoveries (1774) 20: Burk will show you where you may buss a Couple of Prads, and fence them at Abingdon Gaff; that is, Burk, will show you a Couple of Horses that you may steal, and sell them at Abingdon Fair.
1786		Whole Art of Thieving 31: Horse Stealers, they go together always the day before, to look over the grounds for a good Prad or Prads, then at darky they buss them out of the ground, that is, at night they steal the horses.

2. (US) to court.

1833		‘A Chaunt by Slapped-up Kate & Dubber Daff’ Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 46: I’ve buss’d and been nutty on fifty young biddies, / And ring’d them as oft as you see.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 47: Buss her, wap in rogue’s rum lingo, for, O, my dimber wapping dell.

buss beggar (n.) [SE buss, a kiss + SE beggar; in both cases the subject is ‘begging for a kiss’]

1. an ageing prostitute.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 163/2: C.17–19.

2. an aged roué whose enthusiasm for sexual encounters is matched only by the unwillingness of the young and pretty to offer them.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: buss beggar, an old superannuated fumbler, whom none but beggars will suffer to kiss them.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

buss me rass! (also buss my rassa!) [raas n. (1)]

(W.I.) kiss my arse!

1793		J.B. Moreton West India Customs and Manners 155: My mamma curse her, ‘lying bitch!’ / And tell her, ‘buss my rassa!’.
1996		Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage.