Buckname/bʌk/

• 1

  An English surname transferred from the nickname.

  • The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.
• 2

  A male given name from Old English.

• 3

  A German surname, a variant of Buch.

• 4

  An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.

• 5

  A township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

• 6

  A township in Hardin County, Ohio, United States.

bucknoun詞源 1/ˈbʌk/

• 1

  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.

• 2

  An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

• 3

  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.
• 4

  The sound made by a chicken.

• 5

  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 […]
• 6

  obsoleteA fop or dandy.

  • This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck.
  • 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.
• 7

  derogatorydatedA black or Native American man.

  • 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.
  • But this buck claimed he was a big war chief with the Nawyecky Comanches.
• 8

  derogatoryobsoleteAn 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.’

buckverb詞源 1/ˈbʌk/

• 1

  To copulate, as bucks and does.

buckverb詞源 2/ˈbʌk/

• 1

  To bend; buckle.

• 2

  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.
• 3

  To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.

  • The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.
• 4

  To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.

  • The vice president bucked at the board’s latest solution.
• 5

  To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.

  • The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.
• 6

  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.

  • The plane bucked a strong headwind.
  • Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees.
• 7

  governmentmilitarypoliticsTo 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.

• 8

  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsTo strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.

bucknoun詞源 3/ˈbʌk/

• 1

  The beech tree.

  • There is in it also woodes of buck, and deir in them.
  • 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.

bucknoun詞源 4/ˈbʌk/

• 1

  archaicLye 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.
• 2

  archaicThe cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

  • Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck!

buckverb詞源 4/ˈbʌk/

• 1

  archaicTo soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.

• 2

  archaicTo wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water

• 3

  archaicbusinessminingTo 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.

bucknoun詞源 5/ˈbʌk/

• 1

  archaicdialectalThe body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.

• 2

  archaicdialectalanatomymedicinesciencesBelly, breast, chest.

• 3

  archaicdialectalSize.

buckverb詞源 5/ˈbʌk/

• 1

  archaicdialectalTo swell out.

buckverb詞源 6/ˈbʌk/

• 1

  archaicslangTo boast or brag.

  • 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.
  • 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.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• buckshot