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buckish
[ buhk-ish ]
adjective
- impetuous; dashing.
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 产耻肠办顎僫蝉丑路濒测 adverb
- 产耻肠办顎僫蝉丑路苍别蝉蝉 noun
Example Sentences
The verb hang out, meaning to spend time or live, is attested in this 1811 "dictionary of Buckish Slang".
I like something more buckish.
The pretty ones were all too buckish; and the steady ones, a set of the yellowest frights I ever beheld.'
Footnote 11: The established word for shirt-collar in Germany is the very odd one of Vater-m锟絩der, literally "Father-killers;" and they are said to have acquired this name from an anecdote manufactured on their first introduction, in order to ridicule their extravagant size and stiffness, as worn by buckish young men.
A new-booted, yellow-vested, blue-coated, red-headed, rosy-faced, buckish young bricklayer, was brought up from the neighbourhood of Cranford-bridge, charged by one Tom Nagle with having robbed him, on the King's highway, of ten shillings in money, and one bottle of "the best Jimakey rum."
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