BUSS

BUSS. Ferguson says a " stout man." A Sivard Buss occurs in Domesd. and there were Norsemen and Norsewomen called respectively Buss and Bussa. Hence M'ould come the 0. Norse bustuDi, burly — our name Bustin. Ferguson. In the S. of Engl. Buss is a conmion nickname of Barnabas.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.