bucko

American  

[buhk-oh] / ˈbʌk oʊ /

noun

• buckoes
  plural

1. Chiefly Irish English. young fellow; chap; young companion.

2. British Slang. a swaggering fellow.

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bucko British  

/ ˈbʌkəʊ /

noun

1. a lively young fellow: often a term of address

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• buckoes
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bucko

First recorded in 1880–85; buck ¹ + -o

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

bucko buckoes

It's about a lovable but deplorable young Midlands bucko back in England's border-war time, a good tale withal but not on the same counter with mature Kaye- Smithiana.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reb's "future Scotsman" is a fairly fantastic bucko named Jack, who believed himself to be an Irishman until he was 20 and played the part to the Abbey Theater hilt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where now are the bucko mates of yesteryear?

From Time Magazine Archive

Devil a fear but you'll hold her, my bucko!

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams

If there'd only been some good-hearted lad to advise me, I wouldn't be a-settin' here on a hemp hawser, a blasted beachcombin' bucko mate and out of a job.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Gordon Grant

Last May Frankfurt police discovered BDJ buckoes toting truncheons, whereupon Georg August Zinn, the Socialist Minister President of Hesse, decided then & there to have a closer look at BDJ.

From Time Magazine Archive

It's just this same yawping at one another in the forecastles that makes it easy for the buckoes aft to hunt you.

From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Morgan Robertson

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