(informal, rare) Relating to, resembling, or fond of buses.
[in the speech bubble of a bus driver in a cartoon depicting different modes of transport:] Be a Bussy person and save fuel 1989, D. P. Sen Gupta, What on Earth is Energy? (Popular Science), New Delhi: National Council of Educational Research and Training, page 76:
> >Sn!pe, you're weird. Ever heard the phrase 'he/she looks like the back-end
> >of a bus'? I rest my case.
Oy! That were prolly put out by the train mob, innit? ¶ You leave the Snipe alone; a bussy person in a happy person. ¶ (daft as a brushy person, n'all, but a lot saner than a trainy person.) 1999 November 29, Wumpus, “sheddi plates”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):
There you go! I'm picking up the same British feeling that I have that someone hi-jacked a good word for something not very mini, and more bussy than vanny. 2006 February 23, Jpinny, “Re: Wasdale + pix”, in uk.local.cumbria (Usenet):
All the day-time, I was ſtill in the fields alone, with my flock; but, in the winter ſeaſons, eſpecially in the long nights, I was buſſy getting leſſons, from any that would teach me, and when ever I could read diſtinctly by myſelf, I carried my book always with me, and as I read, there ſhined a light on my mind, ſo that I was filled with wonder, at every thing I read. 1762, Elizabeth Cairns, Memoirs of the Life of Elizabeth Cairns, Written By Herself ſome Years before her Death […], Glasgow: Printed for John Brown […], page 15:
[…] bells of gold / Emboss’d his glittering helmet, and where’er / Their sound was heard, there lay the press of war, / And Death was bussiest there. […] 1838, Robert Southey, “Madoc in Aztlan”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Collected by Himself, volume 5 (Madoc), London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, XVIII: The Victory, page 328: