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To play music, sing, dance, or perform in a public place — a street, a park, a train station — with a hat or an open case in front of you, hoping people who walk past will drop in some money. Nobody hired you; you simply set up and play. It is a verb: 'They busk outside the station on Saturdays.' It is a normal, everyday word in Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand — you will hear it constantly there. Americans understand it, but many would more naturally say 'play on the street' or 'street perform'. It is neutral in feeling, not rude: plenty of well-known musicians started out busking, and in some cities you must apply for a licence to do it. Note that busking is about performing for passers-by who choose to give — it is not begging, and English speakers keep the two clearly apart.
街頭賣藝、街頭表演（在街上、捷運站表演並收打賞）
組成Probably from French busquer or Spanish buscar, both meaning 'to seek, to look for' — the idea of going out to look for what you can get. The word first meant something closer to 'to go around seeking' before it settled on street performing.
同家族的字
- buskerthe person who busks: busk + -er
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Buskname詞源 1
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A feast of first fruits among the Creek tribe of Native Americans, celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten.
Buskname詞源 2
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A surname.
Buskname詞源 3
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A city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
buskverb詞源 1/bʌsk/
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To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
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obsoleteTo sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
- The frothy orator, who busked his tales In quackish pomp of noisy words
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nauticaltransportTo tack, cruise about.
busknoun詞源 2/bʌsk/
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A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
- Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske, puffe verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelicall.
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A corset.
- Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
busknoun詞源 3/bʌsk/
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obsoleteA kind of linen.
- Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.
buskverb詞源 4/bʌsk/
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To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
- Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride.
- The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright / And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight.
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To go; to direct one's course.
- Ye might have busked you to Huntly-banks.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。