| 单词 | buck maori |
| 释义 | > as lemmas buck Maori d. offensive. A male North American Indian or Australian Aboriginal person; any black male. So buck Aborigine, buck Indian, buck Maori, buck Negro, buck nigger. Also (illogically) buck-woman. Chiefly U.S. and Australian. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > non-white person > [noun] person of colour1786 buck1800 coloured1832 Indiano1836 nigger1843 skepsel1844 native1846 non-white1864 fuzzy1890 fuzzy-wuzzy1892 monk1903 non-European1906 golliwog1916 wog1921 non-European1925 gook1935 boong1941 jungle bunny1966 Indio1969 1800 J. McKenzie Jrnl. 9 Apr. in L. R. Masson Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (1890) 2nd Ser. 385 I..kept the woman to be disposed of in the season when the Peace River bucks look out for women. 1806 G. Pinckard Notes W. Indies II. 405 The accuracy of the Bucks, in shooting with the long arrow, and in blowing the short poisoned one. 1835 Gentleman's Vade-Mecum (Philadelphia) 17 Jan. 3/6 A buck nigger is worth the slack of two or three hundred dollars. 1840 C. F. Hoffmann Greyslaer II. xii. 54 There they lay on the grass, six big buck Injuns, likely fellows all. 1842 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 18 Apr. (Thornton) The most prominent object was a ‘long nine’ with a fierce looking buck of a colored fellow hanging to the end of it. 1853 Southern Literary Messenger 19 221/2 A big buck negro. 1857 W. Chandless Visit Salt Lake i. 98 You could not mistake a squaw for a buck Indian. 1860 J. C. Adams Adv. 109 The bucks became lively and shouted, hallooed, and whooped, as if mad. 1860 Richmond Enquirer 30 Nov. 2/4 He let drop from the canvas an unmistakable small, nappy-headed buck negro. 1863 ‘E. Kirke’ My Southern Friends iv. 66 Yer scented, bedevilled-up buck niggers. 1869 Congress. Rec. Feb. 1707/3 Chasing the fourteen year old buck Indians across the plains. 1871 Nashville Banner 8 Jan. (De Vere) A big buck negro was found in a hollow, laying [sic] on his face, playing possum. 1876 Congress. Rec. June 3505/1 As soon as these buck warriors smell the war-path. 1879 J. W. Boddam-Whetham Roraima 123 Stepping timidly along may also be seen two or three ‘bucks’, as the natives of the interior are called. 1879 H. R. Mighels Sage Brush Leaves 167 The buck aborigine takes more solid comfort than the female of his tribe. 1882 Congress. Rec. July 5921/2 The cattle..are left by the bucks until the squaws can go to them. 1882 Congress. Rec. July 6540/1 A pound of striped candy for each buck Indian. 1883 Congress. Rec. June 4147/1 I told the boys that we wanted 20,000 ‘bucks’, buck niggers, in Indiana this year. 1884 Leisure Hour Jan. 63/2 ‘Buck’ here [i.e. in British Guiana] is the name for the South American Indian. 1890 Harper's Mag. Apr. 726/1 So out he rode,..feeling pretty confident that..some young ‘buck’ would stab him in the back. 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy x. 136 When the lead came within a few hundred yards of the Indians, one buck..rode forward a few rods. 1904 W. N. Harben Georgians 116 A big black buck, was a-leanin' over the side fence with a cigar in his mouth. 1933 F. E. Baume Half-caste 23 Four bucks from Raglan came in drunk and there was a fight. 1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 55 A buck Maori, a large well-built native (a somewhat unwarranted construction on buck nigger). 1951 E. A. Mittelholzer Shadows move among Them i. iii. 20 His black smooth Buck hair seemed to gleam. 1958 J. Carew Wild Coast xix. 234 Don't talk to me about that Buck-woman. 1964 People (Australia) 16 Dec. 2/1 The bucks..strike large boulders said to be the petrified forms of the dingo slayers. < as lemmas |
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