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byst

“byst” is a Swedish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a bust (sculpture)
  2. a bust (breasts)
  3. bosom (sometimes closer in tone in a casual, old-fashioned (folksy) context)

Etymology

Potentially to Latin bustum. Alternatively to older byste, buste, to Old Swedish bøste, from Old East Norse *bausti (“chest, breasts”) (cf. Old West Norse beysti).

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