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buck en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

/ˈbɐ̞k/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
/ˈbʌk/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈbʊk/ (Ireland, Northern-England) without the foot-strut split
/ˈbɜk/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, fronting
(Australia) audio
/ˈbäk/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- Proto-Germanic *bukkaz Proto-Germanic *bukkô Proto-West Germanic *bukkō Old English bucca Middle English bukke English buck Inherited from Middle English bukke. Doublet of puck (“billy goat”). Currency-related senses hail from American English, a clipping of buckskin as a unit of trade among Native Americans and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748). The idea of rigidly standing implements is instilled by Dutch bok (“sawhorse”) as in zaagbok (“sawbuck”). The sense of an object indicating someone’s turn then occurred in American English, possibly originating from the game poker, where a knife (typically with a hilt made from a stag horn) was used as a place-marker to signify whose turn it was to deal. The place-marker was commonly referred to as a buck, which reinforced the term “pass the buck” used in poker, and eventually a silver dollar was used in place of a knife, which also led to a dollar being referred to as a buck.

Meanings

A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo.
(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
(Africa) An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
- There are all kinds of game in the valley, and you are unlucky if you do not see a giraffe or an ostrich, or at least a herd of buck. 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 265-266:
The sound made by a chicken.
A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- Swankey of the Body Guard himself, that dangerous youth, and the greatest buck of all the Indian army now on leave, was one day discovered by Major Dobbin tête-à-tête with Amelia, and describing the sport of pig-sticking to her with great humour and eloquence […] 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 60, in Vanity Fair:
(UK, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
- This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck. 1808, Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Connoisseur: The British Essayists, volume 32, page 93:
- The Captain was then a buck and dandy, during the reign of those two successive dynasties, of the first rank of the second order ; the characteristic of which very respectable rank of fashionables I hold to be, that their spurs impinge upon the pavement oftener than upon the sides of a horse. 1825, Constantine Henry Phipps, I Zingari: The English in Italy, volume II, page 153:
(US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
- It as not for him to stroll past the groups of watchful girls, blowing a flute made of an eagle's wing bone, as the flirtatious young bucks did. 1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, A Man Called Horse; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 177:
- As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl. 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 83:
- But this buck claimed he was a big war chief with the Nawyecky Comanches. 1956, Frank S. Nugent, Alan Le May, The Searchers, spoken by Futterman:
- She got so she’d rather have a buck nigger than me! 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
- Her curly red hair loose from its combs hangin' down her back and her freckled skin bare, and a big ole nigger buck was doin' things to her! He'd always known that Hootch Carter raped and killed Becky Nell, never had reason to doubt it. 2009, Carol C. Morgan, Wind in the Cotton Fields, page 460:
(Australia, derogatory, obsolete) An Aboriginal man.
- ‘A couple of Old Men wanted that young lubra and they’ve spurred on the bucks to chase Possum and cut his liver out.’ 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 44:
(US, slang) Lowest rank; a private.
(Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, informal) A unit of a particular currency ▸ A dollar (one hundred cents).
- Can I borrow five bucks?
- Won't yer give Jake ten bucks ter buy hisself some close, so he look nice 'mong de gemmens? 1873, John Morris, Wanderings of a Vagabond:
(South-Africa, informal) A unit of a particular currency ▸ A rand (currency unit).
(UK, obsolete, slang) A unit of a particular currency ▸ A sixpence.
- three and a buck
(informal, rare) A unit of a particular currency ▸ A euro.
- Those fools are all probably sitting outside the pork store, recalling the incident about losing a thousand bucks with the fake Gajas, and chewing on their soggy stogies. 2010 December 14, Robert Hernandez, Slurp:Killer Wine, page 129:
(Australia, South-Africa, US, broadly, informal) A unit of a particular currency ▸ Money.
- Corporations will do anything to make a buck.
- It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation. 1987, Oliver Stone, Wall Street (motion picture), spoken by Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas):
A unit of a particular currency ▸ One million dollars.
(US, slang) One hundred.
- The police caught me driving a buck forty [140 miles per hour] on the freeway.
- That skinny guy? C’mon, he can’t weigh more than a buck and a quarter [125 pounds].
(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of buckshot.
alt of buckshot
- He loaded the shotgun with two rounds of double-ought buck.
(UK, dialectal) An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness. ▸ The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness. ▸ A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness. ▸ A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness. ▸ A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- Plans in hand, Frank first paid his friend Raniero a visit, and the artisan quickly went to work on a fortified wood buck that would serve as a form for the Griffith 600 Series, as the car was formally known and marketed by Griffith Motors. 2010, Andrew McCredie, Paula Reisner, Intermeccanica: The Story of the Prancing Bull, page 58:
(dated) An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness. ▸ An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
(broadly, dated, in certain metaphors or phrases, in the US) An implement the body of which is likened to a male sheep’s body due maintaining a stiff-legged position as if by stubbornness. ▸ An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes. ▸ Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
- the buck stops here
- pass the buck
(dated, qualifier:African-American Vernacular) Synonym of buck dance.
Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).
(dated, slang) A kind of large marble in children's games.
(UK, obsolete, slang) An unlicensed cabman.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
bucks	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (99)

fi kolli (adventurous or high-spirited young man) · it moscardino (fop or dandy) · hu bak (male deer, goat, etc.) · enm bukke (male deer, goat, etc.) · it camoscio (male deer, goat, etc.) · fi uros (male deer, goat, etc.) · es macho del conejo (male deer, goat, etc.) · ca boc (male deer, goat, etc.) · fr piasse (informal: dollar) · ru зелёный (informal: dollar) · eo vircervo (male deer, goat, etc.) · fi koiras (male deer, goat, etc.) · fr bouc (male deer, goat, etc.) · fi musta pekka (metaphorically: blame, responsibility, scapegoating, finger-pointing) · et sokk (male deer, goat, etc.) · ar كَبْش (male deer, goat, etc.) · it responsabilità (metaphorically: blame, responsibility, scapegoating, finger-pointing) · oc boc (male deer, goat, etc.) · sv dollar (informal: dollar) · unm palëpay (informal: dollar) · gl godallo (male deer, goat, etc.) · ks ژھاوُل (male deer, goat, etc.) · es macho m cabrío (male deer, goat, etc.) · pl zielony (informal: dollar) · de Rüde (male deer, goat, etc.) · fi satku (slang: one hundred of anything) · hu piperkőc (fop or dandy) · ru бакс (informal: dollar) · ga poc (male deer, goat, etc.) · fi pukki (male deer, goat, etc.) · ota تكه (male deer, goat, etc.) · nv bįįstsoh (male deer, goat, etc.) · he אַיָּל (male deer, goat, etc.) · cs jelen (male deer, goat, etc.) · pl baks (informal: dollar) · gl hirco (male deer, goat, etc.) · bg мъжкар (male deer, goat, etc.) · fi keikari (fop or dandy) · de Bock (adventurous or high-spirited young man) · it lepre (male deer, goat, etc.) · sh јарац (male deer, goat, etc.) · gl bode (male deer, goat, etc.) · cy bwch (male deer, goat, etc.) · it coniglio o canguro (male deer, goat, etc.) · it daino (male deer, goat, etc.) · sv bock (male deer, goat, etc.) · non hafr (male deer, goat, etc.) · it dollaro (informal: dollar) · it damerino (fop or dandy) · ota اركج (male deer, goat, etc.) · ang bucca (male deer, goat, etc.) · es gamo (male deer, goat, etc.) · gd fear-choinean (male deer, goat, etc.) · ko 불 (informal: dollar) · pl dolec (informal: dollar) · es pavo (informal: dollar) · nl bok (male deer, goat, etc.) · gl castrón (male deer, goat, etc.) · fi taala (informal: dollar) · cs beran (male deer, goat, etc.) · fi syntipukki (metaphorically: blame, responsibility, scapegoating, finger-pointing) · bg долар (informal: dollar) · ru щёголь (fop or dandy) · it antilope (male deer, goat, etc.) · es pavos (informal: dollar) · ar وَعْل (male deer, goat, etc.) · es pisaverde (fop or dandy) · gl beche (male deer, goat, etc.) · de Bock (fop or dandy) · ru саме́ц (male deer, goat, etc.) · eo dolaro (informal: dollar) · fi saturainen (slang: one hundred of anything) · cs kozel (male deer, goat, etc.) · ja バック (informal: dollar) · sh jarac (male deer, goat, etc.) · eo boko (male deer, goat, etc.) · bg самец (male deer, goat, etc.) · ru капу́ста (informal: dollar) · da buk (male deer, goat, etc.) · fo havur (male deer, goat, etc.) · el αρσενικό ελάφι (male deer, goat, etc.) · ang bucc (male deer, goat, etc.) · fi huntti (slang: one hundred of anything) · nv bįįhkąʼ (male deer, goat, etc.) · fr balle (informal: dollar) · ca cérvol (male deer, goat, etc.) · pt macho (male deer, goat, etc.) · hu dolcsi (informal: dollar) · es caballerete (fop or dandy) · pt gamo (male deer, goat, etc.) · it centinaio (slang: one hundred of anything) · es buco (male deer, goat, etc.) · it Maschio di cervo (male deer, goat, etc.) · de Bock (male deer, goat, etc.) · so orgi (male deer, goat, etc.) · eo cerviĉo (male deer, goat, etc.) · is hafur (male deer, goat, etc.) · es macho (male deer, goat, etc.) · de Rammler (male deer, goat, etc.)

buck en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

/ˈbɐ̞k/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
/ˈbʌk/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈbʊk/ (Ireland, Northern-England) without the foot-strut split
/ˈbɜk/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, fronting
(Australia) audio
/ˈbäk/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- Proto-Germanic *bukkaz Proto-Germanic *bukkô Proto-West Germanic *bukkō Old English bucca Middle English bukke English buck Inherited from Middle English bukke. Doublet of puck (“billy goat”). Currency-related senses hail from American English, a clipping of buckskin as a unit of trade among Native Americans and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748). The idea of rigidly standing implements is instilled by Dutch bok (“sawhorse”) as in zaagbok (“sawbuck”). The sense of an object indicating someone’s turn then occurred in American English, possibly originating from the game poker, where a knife (typically with a hilt made from a stag horn) was used as a place-marker to signify whose turn it was to deal. The place-marker was commonly referred to as a buck, which reinforced the term “pass the buck” used in poker, and eventually a silver dollar was used in place of a knife, which also led to a dollar being referred to as a buck.

Meanings

(intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Source
bucking	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
bucked	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
bucked	Tense=Past	lexicographic
bucks	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic

buck en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

/ˈbɐ̞k/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
/ˈbʌk/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈbʊk/ (Ireland, Northern-England) without the foot-strut split
/ˈbɜk/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, fronting
(Australia) audio
/ˈbäk/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

From dialectal buck ("to give in, yield"; also bug (“to bend”)), from Middle Low German bucken (“to bend”) or Middle Dutch bucken, bocken (“to bend”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *bukkōn (“to bend, bend repeatedly”), from Proto-Germanic *bukkōną (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugʰ-, *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”) + Proto-Germanic *-(u)kōną. Cognate with Old Frisian bukkia (“to bend”). Influenced in some senses by buck “male goat” (see above). Sense “to meet, to encounter” is a semantic loan from Jamaican Creole buck. Compare bow and elbow.

Meanings

(intransitive) To bend; buckle.
(intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
- 1849, Jackey Jackey, The Statement of the Aboriginal Native Jackey Jackey, who Accompanied Mr. Kennedy, William Carron, Narrative of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy, 2004 Gutenberg Australia eBook #0201121, At the same time we got speared, the horses got speared too, and jumped and bucked all about, and got into the swamp.
(of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal, transitive) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle. 1886, W. E. Norris, A Bachelor's Blunder:
(broadly, intransitive) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- The vice president bucked at the board’s latest solution.
(broadly, intransitive) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.
(broadly, transitive) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- I spoke to him in London recently and suggested he was bucking an age-old system. Surely popular performers studied the possible reactions of their audience in advance when deciding on a new approach? 1977 November 20, Dave Gelly, “No more Ziggy as David Bowie becomes his own man”, in The Observer:
- Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees.
- The plane bucked a strong headwind.
- 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure [I] Asked if he wanted to go to a punk rock concert Saturday & he had another engagement but he would buck it because it sure sounded much more fun going with me.
- John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well.
(transitive) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
(US, slang) To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite end (the rivet factory head) is hammered by a rivet gun, to upset the bucktail into an appropriate shape, most commonly a pancake-shape.
To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
(Ireland, euphemistic, humorous) To fuck.
- Protestors chanted "You're not wanted here" and held up placards with slogans such as "Buck off" - a pun on Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck's name - and "No to racist Ricketts". 2022 April 2, Emma Smith, “Watch: 'Buck off!' - Chelsea fans stage 'No to racist Ricketts' ownership protest outside Stamford Bridge”, in goal.com:
- Thatch had come down the stairs and chimed in: "Isn't he an awful buckin' eejit?" 2003, Sam Stewart, The Druid, page 195:
- "I can see the headlines in the morning, taxi man bucking hangs himself. 2012 January 28, 20:01 from the start, in Mrs Brown's Boys (Mammy's Going) (2), episode 5, spoken by Agnes Brown (Brendan O'Carroll):
- Well he yoked the ass up to the cart. And then the holy ructions it did start. Well he bucked it in the air and he bucked it all around. Till he smashed the buckin' cart upon the ground. 1997 February 20, “Mickey's buckin' ass”performed by Richie Kavanagh:
- I will buck a French lad, Erin. I will buck a French lad, so help me God. 2018 January 11, 13:39 from the start, in Derry Girls (1), episode 2, spoken by Michelle Mallon (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell):
- "Was he a buccaneer?" I asked. "No, eejit!" Lionel said. Never one to pass up a play on words, he continued, "He's a buckin' IRA man and he's gathering up an army in the Irish Free State. He says he's going to march up to Ulster and drive all of us Protestants into the Irish Sea!" 2010, The Other Belfast, page 155:
(Multicultural-London-English) To meet, to encounter, to come across.
- If I buck a paigon, I will disappoint his mum 2020 July 20, “Straight Facts” (0:35 from the start), Broadday (lyrics):
- I go mad when I buck me a opper, chest and back and I fucked up his posture 2021 June 9, “T.R.A.P” (0:10 from the start), 88 (ZT) (lyrics):

Forms

Spelling	Features	Source
bucked	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
bucked	Tense=Past	lexicographic
bucking	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
bucks	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic

Deriveds

bucker · buck in · bucking bar · kick and buck · buck the tide · buck up · buck the tiger · buck out · buck for · bucking bronco · buck down · bucktail · buck up to · buck the trend · humbucker

Relateds

buxom

Translations (14)

de sich widersetzen (to resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly) · mi tānapu (of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs) · sv slå bakut (of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs) · cs vyhazovat (of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs) · it sgroppare (of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs) · fr ruer (of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs) · fi vikuroida (of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs) · nl bokken (of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs) · uk брика́тися (to resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly) · mi tūpeke (of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs) · ru сопротивляться (to resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly) · fi vastustaa (to resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly) · es corcovear (of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs) · fi vikuroida (to resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly)

buck en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

/ˈbɐ̞k/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
/ˈbʌk/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈbʊk/ (Ireland, Northern-England) without the foot-strut split
/ˈbɜk/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, fronting
(Australia) audio
/ˈbäk/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

See beech.

Meanings

(Scotland) The beech tree.
- The underbrush is all there, spice brush, buck beech, iron wood and alder and no doubt in the spring of the year, there is a wealth of flowers. 2010, Joel Greenberg, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water:
- The magnolia, buck [ beech?], and poplar never grow on lands subject to overflow. 1969, Samuel Henry Lockett, Lauren C. Post, Louisiana as it is, page 53:
- There is in it also woodes of buck, and deir in them. 1777, Mostyn John Armstrong, A Scotch Atlas; Or Description of the Kingdom of Scotland:
- But, whilst we thus condemn the timber, we must not omit to praise the mast, which fats our swine and deer, and hath, in some families, even supported men with bread. Chios endured a memorable siege by the beniefit of this mast. And, in some parts of France, they now grind the buck in mills; it affords a sweet oil, which the poor people east most willingly. 1786, John Evelyn, Alexander Hunter, Silva: Or, A Discourse Of Forest-Trees, page 136:
- The HORNBEAM ( provincially “HORSE-BEECH," in contradistinction to “buck beech” — the true beech) is, in many woods, the most prevalent species; and being drawn up in thickets with a rapid growth, becomes tall and straight enough for hop poles: and is even suffered to grow up, as a species of wood timber. 1798, William Marshall, The Rural Economy of the Southern Counties:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
bucks	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Deriveds

buck-mast · buckwheat · buckmast

buck en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

/ˈbɐ̞k/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
/ˈbʌk/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈbʊk/ (Ireland, Northern-England) without the foot-strut split
/ˈbɜk/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, fronting
(Australia) audio
/ˈbäk/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

From Middle English bouken (“steep in lye”), ultimately related to the root of beech. Cognate with Middle High German büchen, Swedish byka, Danish byge and Low German būken.

Meanings

(archaic) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- 1673, Robert Almond, The English Horseman and Complete Farrier, London: Simon Miller, Chapter 25 “Maunginess in the Main,” p. 236, […] when you find the scurf to fall off, wash the Neck and other parts with Buck Lye made blood warm.
(archaic) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck! c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

Deriveds

buck-basket

buck en · VERB · etymology 4

Pronunciation

/ˈbɐ̞k/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
/ˈbʌk/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈbʊk/ (Ireland, Northern-England) without the foot-strut split
/ˈbɜk/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, fronting
(Australia) audio
/ˈbäk/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

From Middle English bouken (“steep in lye”), ultimately related to the root of beech. Cognate with Middle High German büchen, Swedish byka, Danish byge and Low German būken.

Meanings

(archaic) To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
(archaic) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water
(archaic) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- This [ore mixture] was bucked or cobbed down to a 'peasy' size (i.e. the size of a pea) or less, using a flat-bottomed bucking hammer, and then riddled into coarse peasy and finer (sand-sized) 'smitham' grades. 1991, Joan Day, R. F. Tylecote, The industrial revolution in metals, page 89:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Source
bucks	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
bucking	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
bucked	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
bucked	Tense=Past	lexicographic

buck en · NOUN · etymology 5

Pronunciation

/ˈbɐ̞k/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
/ˈbʌk/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈbʊk/ (Ireland, Northern-England) without the foot-strut split
/ˈbɜk/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, fronting
(Australia) audio
/ˈbäk/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

From Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk, body, hull of a ship, fishtrap, container”), from Old English būc (“belly, bottle, jug, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz. Doublet of bucket.

Meanings

(UK, archaic, dialectal) The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
(UK, archaic, dialectal) Belly, breast, chest.
(UK, archaic, dialectal) Size.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
bucks	Number=Plur		lexicographic
bouk		alternative	lexicographic

Deriveds

forebuck · eelbuck

buck en · VERB · etymology 5

Pronunciation

/ˈbɐ̞k/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
/ˈbʌk/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈbʊk/ (Ireland, Northern-England) without the foot-strut split
/ˈbɜk/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, fronting
(Australia) audio
/ˈbäk/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

From Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk, body, hull of a ship, fishtrap, container”), from Old English būc (“belly, bottle, jug, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz. Doublet of bucket.

Meanings

(UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive) To swell out.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
bucked	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
bucked	Tense=Past		lexicographic
bucking	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
bucks	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
bouk		alternative	lexicographic

buck en · VERB · etymology 6

Pronunciation

/ˈbɐ̞k/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
/ˈbʌk/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈbʊk/ (Ireland, Northern-England) without the foot-strut split
/ˈbɜk/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, fronting
(Australia) audio
/ˈbäk/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

From Hindi बकना (baknā, “babble, talk nonsense”).

Meanings

(archaic, intransitive, slang) To boast or brag.
- He was certainly bucking about his trophies, and for the sake of the argument you will be good enough to admit that you probably bucked about yours. What happens? You are overheard; you are followed; you are worked into the same scheme, and robbed on the same night. 1905, E. W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night:
- And then […] he bucks with a quiet stubborn determination that would fill an American editor, or an Under Secretary of State with despair. He belongs to the 12-foot-tiger school, so perhaps he can't help it. 1880, Ali Baba (page 164)

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Spelling	Features	Source
bucked	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
bucked	Tense=Past	lexicographic
bucking	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
bucks	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic

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buck hoist · buck buck

buck en · NOUN · etymology 1

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buck en · NOUN · etymology 3

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buck en · VERB · etymology 6

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