OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7966

buck

/bʌk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
buco • gamo • macho • macho del conejo • macho m cabrío
A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
caballerete • pisaverde
A fop or dandy.
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…
This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck.
pavo • pavos
A unit of a particular currency
Can I borrow five bucks?
Won't yer give Jake ten bucks ter buy hisself some close, so he look nice 'mong de gemmens?
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 7967

buck

/bʌk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
corcovear
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…