buckon.
/ˈbʌkəʊ/, U.S. /ˈbəkoʊ/ Nautical slang.
1. A blustering, swaggering, or domineering fellow; sometimes used as a term of address. Also attributive or as adj. = blustering, swaggering, bullying; esp. in bucko mate.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [adjective]
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hufty-tufty1596
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huff-cap1597
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swash1635
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bravashing1652
hectoring1664
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huffy1677
huff-snuff1693
swashbuckling1693
flustering1698
blustery1739
huffish1755
bravading1812
topping1815
Bobadilish1832
Bobadilian1837
fanfaronading1837
bucko1883
swashbucklering1884
swaggery1886
blokeish1920
blokey1938
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > person
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flirdom?a1500
facerc1500
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rutterkina1529
bellomy1535
bystour1535
roister1549
swash1549
rush-buckler1551
roisterkin1553
swashbuckler1560
dash-buckler1567
swinge-buckler?1577
whiffler1581
huff-snuff1582
swish-swash1582
fixnet1583
swag1588
swasher?1589
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dagger1597
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tear-cat1606
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wag-feather1611
wind-cutter1611
bilbo-lorda1625
tearer1633
cacafuegoa1640
bravado1643
Hector1655
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huffer1664
bluster-mastera1670
Drawcansir1672
bully huff1673
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belswagger1680
valienton1681
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Draw can bully1698
bouncer1764
Bobadil1771
bounce1819
pistol1828
sacripant1829
hufty1847
bucko1883
1883 J. F. T. Keane On Blue-water xv. 190 After that, no sailor will deny that a ‘bucko mate’ is not sometimes useful.
1899 M. Robertson Where Angels fear to Tread 107 Stand by here, mates. These buckoes'll kill some one yet.
1919 P. Macgill Glenmornan ii. § 5 ‘Shake yer legs, me buckos!’ Oiney shouted.
1924 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. 712/3 Bucko skippers.
1926 Spectator 6 Feb. 229/2 A youngster who went to sea as apprentice and finished bucko mate of a Yankee packet.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 5/1 A great big bucko of a man.
1939 T. S. Eliot Old Possum's Bk. Pract. Cats 16 His bucko mate, Grumbuskin, long since had disappeared.
1969 Courier-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.
2. Swagger, bluster.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun]
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flirdom?a1500
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roistingc1560
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swash1593
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huffing1600
hufty1609
huff1611
brustling1622
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bouncing1634
hectorism1672
huffiness1678
bluster1692
bounce1714
bravadoism1833
fanfaronading1837
bush1840
huffishness1841
swashbuckling1888
bucko1909
1909 Times 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).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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