Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tuft of coarse grass.
- noun A sheaf of grain.
- noun A thick, fat person.
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Examples
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"bussock" went down in the Professor's notebook as an interesting variant of "hassock."
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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"Guess some bussock of a feller got monkeyin 'with a gun an' didn't know a heap."
The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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Lay me down in the buckle, bussock…the basket,” I said, pointing at the overturned bucket and the windlass, “and I’ll fet her.”
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Lay me down in the buckle, bussock…the basket,” I said, pointing at the overturned bucket and the windlass, “and I’ll fet her.”
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Lay me down in the buckle, bussock…the basket,” I said, pointing at the overturned bucket and the windlass, “and I’ll fet her.”
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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