busev.
/bjuːz/, U.S. /bjuz/, Caribbean English /bjuːz/ Chiefly U.S. regional and Caribbean in later use.
transitive. = abuse v.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [verb (transitive)] > to person or thing
werdec725
wemc900
forworkOE
evilc1000
teenOE
grievec1230
misdoc1230
mischievec1325
shond1338
endamagec1374
unrighta1393
damagea1400
disvail14..
disavail1429
mischief1437
outrayc1440
prejudice1447
abuse?1473
injuryc1484
danger1488
prejudicate1553
damnify?a1562
wrack1562
inviolate1569
mislestc1573
indemnify1583
qualify1584
interess1587
buse1589
violence1592
injure1597
bane1601
envya1625
prejudiciala1637
founder1655
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > ill-treat [verb (transitive)]
tuckc888
tawc893
misbedeOE
graithc1330
to fare fair or foul with1340
misusea1382
outrayc1390
beshrewc1430
huspelc1440
misentreat1450
mistreat1453
abuse?1473
to mayne evil1481
demean1483
to put (a person) to villainya1513
harry1530
mishandle1530
touse1531
misorder1550
worrya1556
yark1565
mumble1588
buse1589
crow-tread1593
disabuse1607
maltreat1681
squeeze1691
ill-treat1794
punish1801
tousle1826
ill-use1841
razoo1890
mess1896
to play horse with1896
to bugger about1921
slug1925
to give (a person) the works1927
to kick about or around1938
mess1963
1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxx. 134 My Wife..Shall not ywis be bused by the squandring Pollo.
1841 Baltimore Phœnix & Budget Oct. 261/2 I'll never—never marry him—no not if he's the King! For he's always abusing me—he's always 'busing me..and will not let me be.
1848 Trinidad Spectator 8 Jan. 2 He buse me too much..he buse me—me buse em back.
1883 R. M. Johnston Old Mark Langston xl. 318 I never beat her, ner cussed her, ner 'bused her.
1904 Penny Cuts (Trinidad) 22 Oct. When ah tark to him bout it, he ah start to buse me, he gen'rally say ‘he moonee is his, is he does work for it.’
1960 P. Green Stephen Foster Story i. iv. 54 Dey beat Tom—dey 'buse him.
1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (at cited word) When they fired that servant she got out on the road and bused them so bad they had to close the windows.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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