| 单词 | to buck off |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto buck off intransitive. Of a horse: To leap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet together like a deer, and arching the back. Also transitive. to buck off, and reflexive. Cf. buck-jump n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > leap or prance > buck buck1848 sunfish1888 society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > keep one's seat on (a horse) > unseat, throw (the rider) casta1300 unhorse1390 throwa1425 unsaddlea1470 unseat1596 dismounta1616 fall1688 to funk (a person) off1821 unship1831 dishorse1859 to buck off1881 shift1891 1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. vii. 78 Australian horses have a vicious habit known as ‘buck-jumping’, or as it is more familiarly called, ‘bucking’. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn II. 212 That same bucking..is just what puzzles me utterly. 1880 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 164 When a horse bucks heavily. 1881 Cheq. Career 38 He bucked me off more times than I can remember. 1923 Outward Bound Mar. 408/2 Many ambitious young horses have bucked themselves to a finish without dislodging my cargo. < as lemmas |
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