busk
verb /bʌsk/
/bʌsk/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they busk | /bʌsk/ /bʌsk/ |
| he / she / it busks | /bʌsks/ /bʌsks/ |
| past simple busked | /bʌskt/ /bʌskt/ |
| past participle busked | /bʌskt/ /bʌskt/ |
| -ing form busking | /ˈbʌskɪŋ/ /ˈbʌskɪŋ/ |
- to perform music in a public place and ask for money from people passing byWord Originmid 17th cent.: from obsolete French busquer ‘seek’, from Italian buscare or Spanish buscar, of Germanic origin. Originally in nautical use in the sense ‘cruise about, tack’, the term later meant ‘go about selling things’, hence ‘go about performing’ (mid 19th cent.).