English: metonymic occupational name for a cooper or else a
nickname for a rotund, fat man, from Middle English, Old French
busse ‘cask’, ‘barrel’ (of unknown origin). The word was also
used in Middle English for a type of ship, and the surname may perhaps
have been given to someone who sailed in one. The byname seems to
occur already in Domesday Book, where a Siward Buss, and a John and
Richard Buss are recorded at Brasted in Kent.German and
Swiss German: from a pet form of the personal name Burkhard
(see Burkhart).Danish: variant of Buus.
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