单词 | killbuck |
释义 | † killbuckn. Obsolete. rare. 1. A fierce-looking fellow. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [noun] > person or being wolfa900 liona1225 wild manc1290 boar1297 fell1340 tiger?a1513 centaur1565 wolver1593 to speak bandog and Bedlam1600 vulture1605 killbuck1612 man-tigera1652 Tartar1669 hyena1671 dragoon1712 vampire1741 Huna1744 panther1868 1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares i. sig. C4v Thar. Well haue you done now Ladie. Ars. O my sweet kilbuck. Thar. You now, in your shallow pate, thinke this a disgrace to mee. 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. Killbuck, suyr gesicht. 2. Applied to the keeper of a deer-park.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. iii. 90 A poor kill-buck that never frightened anything before save a dun deer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1612 |
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