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buck-eye U.S.
[said to be f. buck n.1 + eye; see quot. 1841.]
1. Bot.
a. The American Horse-chestnut (æsculus glabra). Also, a tree of this species.
1763in R. T. Durrett Louisville (1893) 132 Beginning at a hoop-ashe and buckeye. 1784J. Filson Kentucke 23 Here also is the buck-eye, an exceedingly soft wood, bearing a remarkable black fruit. 1789–96Morse Amer. Geog. I. 636 The buckeye..is the horse chesnut of Europe. 1841J. W. Loudon 1st Bk. Bot. (1845) 25 Called buck-eye..from the hilum of the fruit having the appearance of a stag's eye. 1878B. Harte Man on Beach 109 Looking down upon me through the buckeye bushes.
b. The nut or fruit of the buck-eye.
1797in Filson Club Hist. Q. (1928) II. 166 Buck eye..resembles the Chestnut, but is as large as a hickory nut of the largest Size. 1892Jrnl. Amer. Folk-Lore V. 20 The negroes believe if one carries buckeyes in the pocket he will have no chills through the year. 1948Chicago Tribune 28 Mar. vii. 1/3 You carry a buckeye to ward off rheumatism.
2. a. A native of Ohio, the ‘Buckeye State’, in which the æsculus glabra abounds. colloq.
1822E. James Acct. Expedition Rocky Mts. I. 20 In allusion to this circumstance, the indigenous backwoodsman is sometimes called buck-eye. 1882Congress. Rec. July 5811/1 The regenerated statesmanship of the modern Buckeye.
attrib.1840Buffalo Commerc. Advertiser 12 Sept. (Th.), Queer carryalls did these Buckeye boys construct. 1894Congress. Rec. Jan., App. 79/1 The very author of the tariff plank in the Chicago platform was last fall buried beneath more than 80,000 votes in that grand old ‘Buckeye’ State.
b. fig. (as one word). Used attrib. and absol. of an inferior person or thing, esp. one of no value, poor quality, or cheap (but often showy). colloq.
[1846in C. Cist Cincinnati Misc. II. 97/1 The buckeye..stood very low in the estimation of early settlers, and by a figure of speech.., it was applied to lawyers and doctors whose capacity and attainment were of a low grade.] 1906Atlantic Monthly Nov. 640 The despised ‘buckeye’ painter who paints for department stores and cheap picture shops. 1920S. Lewis Main St. xi. 137 The walls of Mrs. Cass's parlor were plastered with..‘buckeye’ pictures. 1947New Yorker 15 Feb. 59 A buckeye is a small shop in which cigars are made by hand in a back room and sold across the counter out front. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 332/1 Buckeye painter—which means a painter of decorations on saloon mirrors. 1980in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams 107 The place was called a buckeye, the name for a sleazy shop.
3. A type of canoe or schooner (see quots.).
1885C. P. Kunhardt Small Yachts 234 The Buckeyes..are an exaggeration of the dugout canoe... The primitive builder bored two holes, one on each side of the stem, through which to pay out his cables. These were simply two round holes, bored with a large auger, and, when the boat was coming head on, resembled to the fancy of the negroes, the eyes of a buck. 1889Cent. Dict., Buckeye...A flat-bottomed centerboard schooner of small size..decked over, and with a cabin aft, used in oyster-fishing in Chesapeake Bay. Also called bugeye. 1923Outing (U.S.) Jan. 187/1 The craft he suggests is one of ‘those Chesapeake Bay buckeyes’. |