A small tuft or clump of grass or vegetation; a hassock or footstool (dialectal or archaic).
Possibly from 'bush' + diminutive suffix '-ock,' or from 'buss' meaning a tuft. Regional variations exist in British English.
English dialect words like 'bussock' preserve knowledge of the landscape—specific words for tussocks of marsh grass reveal how people's vocabularies adapted to their environments.
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