| 释义 |
hawbuck|ˈhɔːbək|
[perh. f. haw n.1 or n.2 + buck n.1 2.]
An unmannerly lout; a country bumpkin.
1805Times in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1806) IX. 312, [I] Damned the hawbuck who quizzed us, and agreed to cross the fields towards Newington. 1851Beck's Florist 32 Davy..called all the boys in our brig a set of haw-bucks. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho (1861) 97 'Slife, Sir, sorrow is making a hawbuck of me. 1858Leeds Express 14 Aug. 4/3 The veriest hawbuck that ever grew and flourished in the wilds of Kent. |