Bussa (disambiguation)
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Bussa can refer to:-
- an old Devonshire and Cornish word meaning a calf kept on a cow till it weans itself (Buss is a steer)
- an early large jar originating from Cornwall, England, see Cornish Bussa
- a former town in Nigeria, see Bussa, Nigeria
- an Italian word meaning trouble, grief, vexation, fatigue, labour [affanno, travalio, per lo piu da fatica]
- an Italian word meaning blow, stroke [battitura, colpo, percoffa]
- a Barbadian rebel slave, see BussaBussaBussa was an African-born Barbadian slave who in 1816 led a slave uprising in Barbados popularly known as Bussa's Rebellion. Bussa was born a free man in Africa, possibly of Igbo origin, and was captured by African slave merchants, sold to the British, and brought to Barbados in the late 18th...
- a monument to slave Bussa in Barbados, see Bussa Emancipation StatueBussa Emancipation StatueThe Bussa Emancipation Statue is a public sculpture of a slave rebellion leader in Barbados, east of Bridgetown. The statue is located at centre of the J.T.C. Ramsey roundabout formed at the junction of the ABC Highway and Highway 5...
- a language spoken in Ethiopia, see Bussa languageBussa languageBussa is an East Cushitic language spoken in the Dirashe special woreda of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region located in southern Ethiopia...
- related to an old Scottish word bouzy (abj. covered with bushes, wooded) which is also used to mean fat and overgrown, having at the same time a jolly good-humoured appearance)
- an Icelanders word meaning great (hense calling a gross woman bussa)