possibly from a diminutive of Old French bisse
‘fine linen’ (see Bisset).
(Normandy) topographic name for
someone who lived in an area of scrub land or by a prominent clump of
bushes, from Old French buisson ‘bush’, ‘scrub’ (a diminutive
of bois ‘wood’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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