bouissé

Norman

Alternative forms

buisset (Guernsey)
bouessé, bouossé (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French boissel, from Gaulish *bossā.

Noun

bouissé m (plural bouissiâos)

(France) bushel
- 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 510:
  Quand le bouissé est pllein, i' jette.
  When the bushel-measure is full, it runs over.

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