| 单词 |
buckie |
| 释义 |
buckie Sc.|ˈbʌkɪ|
Also 6 bukie.
[Derivation unknown; cf. L. buccinum whelk. Perhaps sense 2 is a distinct word: ? f. buck n.1]
1. The whorled shell of any mollusc; e.g. whelk.[c1505W. Dunbar Tua Mar. Wom. & Wedo 276 And with a bukky in my cheik bo on him behind.] 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. 57 In the space of xii. houris thay grow in fair cokilis or bukies. 1638H. Adamson Muse's Threnodie 2 (Jam.) Triton, his trumpet of a Buckie Propin'd to him, was large and luckie. 1814Scott Diary in Lockhart (1839) IV. 260 They gather shells on the shore, called Johnnie Groat's buckies. 1845Petrie Eccl. Archit. Irel. 94 Oyster shells, buckies or sea-shells.
2. A perverse or refractory person.
1719Ramsay Ep. Lt. Hamilton iii, Gin ony sourmou'd girning bucky Ca' me conceity keckling chucky. 1791Burns Ep. to J. Maxwell iii, If envious buckies view wi' sorrow Thy lengthen'd days. 1814Scott Wav. III. 133 (Jam.) ‘It was that deevil's buckie, Callum Beg’. |
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