buckism en · NOUN
Etymology
From buck + -ism.
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable) The quality of being a young buck; adventurous high spirits.
His mode of dissipating time, and defying the statutes to which he had sworn obedience, was in the true style of university buckism.
1811, The Scourge; or Monthly expositor, of imposture and folly, page 91: