From Middle English blusshen, bluschen, blusschen, blisshen, from Old English blysċan, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *blaskijaną, from *blasǭ or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *bluskijaną, from *blusjǭ. Cognate with Middle Low German blöschen. Compare also Old English blysian, Dutch blozen, Danish blusse, Old Norse blys, Danish blus.
Unknown; attested in the late 15th century.
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