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Choose a quality wig: To get a buss down look, go for a human hair lace front or full lace wig.—Kedean Smith, refinery29.com, 27 Sep. 2024 In the paper’s supplementary materials, a brief history of kissing pinpointed South Asia as the place of origin and traced the first literary buss to 1500 B.C., when Vedic Sanskrit manuscripts were being transcribed from oral history.—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
Word History
Etymology
perhaps alteration of Middle English bassen to kiss
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