| 词汇 | busker |
| 词根词缀 | 词源： "itinerant entertainer," 1857, from busk (v.) "to offer goods for sale only in bars and taprooms," 1851 (in Mayhew), probably from busk "to cruise as a pirate," which was used in a fig. sense by 1841, in ref. to people living shifless and peripatetic lives. The nautical term is attested from 1665 (in a general sense of "to tack, to beat to windward"), apparently from obs. Fr. busquer "to shift, filch, prowl," which is related to It. buscare "to filch, prowl," Sp. buscar (from O.Sp. boscar), perhaps originally from bosco "wood" (see bush), with a hunting notion of "beating a wood" to flush game. Busker mistakenly was derived from buskin in the stage sense. |
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