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单词 bucko
释义 bucko Naut. slang.|ˈbʌkəʊ|
[f. buck n.1+ -o2.]
a. A blustering, swaggering, or domineering fellow; sometimes used as a term of address. Also attrib. or as adj. = blustering, swaggering, bullying; esp. in phr. bucko mate.
b. Swagger, bluster.
1883J. F. T. Keane On Blue-Water xv. 190 After that, no sailor will deny that a ‘bucko mate’ is not sometimes useful.1899M. Robertson Where Angels Fear 107 Stand by here, mates. These buckoes'll kill some one yet.1909Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Sept. 325/2 Hudson was included among the victims because he was given to ‘bucko’ (to use a piece of sea slang).1924Ibid. 6 Nov. 712/3 Bucko skippers.1926Spectator 6 Feb. 229/2 A youngster who went to sea as apprentice and finished bucko mate of a Yankee packet.1927Blackw. Mag. Jan. 5/1 A great big bucko of a man.1939T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Practical Cats 16 His bucko mate, Grumbuskin, long since had disappeared.1969Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 18 Aug. 5/2 The old buckos in the peaked caps..never thought they would live to see the day when Irishmen applauded the arrival of British troops.
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