I'm asking in the context of a musical I am authoring: FIELDS OF BUSSY.
This is relevant as I will need to develop proper rhymes for the opening number, also titled "Fields of Bussy".
Does "bussy" rhyme with "pussy" or "hussy"?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 14, 2025 4:25 AM |
If only William Safire was still alive to opine.
"Mussy," I know, definitely rhymes with pussy.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 13, 2025 11:49 PM |
bus-E
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 13, 2025 11:59 PM |
It’s more like the uhh sound in “bushy” but without the shh.
You can always call a reference librarian at the library, and ask.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 14, 2025 12:59 AM |
PUSSY you cunt
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 14, 2025 1:01 AM |
What about momma’s mussy?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 14, 2025 1:01 AM |
Bussy? 🚌
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 14, 2025 1:07 AM |
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| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 14, 2025 1:10 AM |
According to the OED mussy and bussy rhyme with hussy, but of course that's the received English pronunciation.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 14, 2025 1:41 AM |
"Bussy" is a portmanteau of "boy" and "pussy" so it would rhyme with pussy. Same with "man-pussy/mussy".
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 14, 2025 4:05 AM |
[quote]r9 "Bussy" is a portmanteau of "boy" and "pussy" so it would rhyme with pussy. Same with "man-pussy/mussy".
So, does a bussy "age out" at some point and mature into being a mussy?
I'm pleased that visitors still call it my bussy... but for how long, Lord, [italic]how long??
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 14, 2025 4:25 AM |