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say it: BUH-skur
busker is a noun meaning "a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money". It is pronounced /ˈbʌskɚ/ — BUH-skur. It carries one recorded sense.
a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money
dancing
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for busker come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.