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buckskin en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈbʌkˌskɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck + skin.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of a grayish yellow in colour.

buckskin en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈbʌkˌskɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck + skin.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The skin of a male deer, a buck.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Clothing made from buckskin.
    • As she spoke, we perceived two lines of figures, one male and the other female, to the number of about a hundred, each advancing round the human bonfire, arrayed only in the usual leopard and buck skins. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  3. (countable, uncountable) Breeches made of buckskin.
    • I have alluded to his buckskins. 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
  4. (countable, uncountable) A grayish yellow in colour.
  5. (countable, uncountable) A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
  6. (countable, uncountable) A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
    • Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man. 1784, Robert Burns, Ballad on the American War:
  7. (countable, uncountable) A horse with a light yellowish-brown coat and black mane and tail.

Forms

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Deriveds

buckskinned

Hyponyms

skin

Translations (8)

apw ibann (the skin of a male deer, a buck) · ga craiceann fia (the skin of a male deer, a buck) · nv abaní (a soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin) · mk еленска кожа (the skin of a male deer, a buck) · de Hirschleder (the skin of a male deer, a buck) · nv abaní (the skin of a male deer, a buck) · mn бугын арьс (the skin of a male deer, a buck) · ru оле́нья шку́ра (the skin of a male deer, a buck)