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buckshee en · ADJ

Etymology

Related to baksheesh.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, slang) Extra, spare.
   • However, you come along about nine o'clock. There's some buckshee rum. 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 35:

buckshee en · NOUN

Etymology

Related to baksheesh.

Meanings

1. A gift or bribe.
   • Being a literary gent certainly has its advantages, such as not needing to shave before starting work in the mornings and all the literary luncheons sitting at the top table, which has the flowers and the buckshee booze. 2008, Richard Gordon, Doctor on Toast, →ISBN, page 11:
2. An extra portion, ration etc.
3. (slang) A minor wound that necessitates the evacuation of a soldier from the combat zone for medical treatment.
   • Ted Mostyn, for example; he's only eighteen, and he's back with two buckshees (wounds) already. 2013, Percy F. Westerman, A Lively Bit of the Front, →ISBN:
   • Clearly the preferred wound, it ranked in seriousness between a 'buckshee' or 'baksheesh', a slight wound that merely took a man out of the line for a short time, and a 'N.Z. smack', which meant being invalided back to New Zealand, usually disabled for life. 2009, Gavin McLean, Penguin Book Of New Zealanders At War, →ISBN:
   • As they went down the sap, 'Frank led the way...explaining to all and sundry "Old Kips got a buckshee". 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 345:
4. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of bukshi (“paymaster”).
   alt of bukshi

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