Nubuck

British  

/ ˈnjuːˌbʌk /

noun

1. (sometimes not capital) leather that has been rubbed on the flesh side of the skin to give it a fine velvet-like finish

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Example Sentences

But my son Charley, him 'at 's deid an' gane hame, wad hae tell't ye it was idle time readin' that, wi' sic a buik as that ither lyin' at yer elbuck.'

From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George

Lang may your elbuck jink and diddle, To cheer you through the weary widdle O’ this wild warl’, Until you on a crummock driddle A gray-hair’d carl.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Lang may your elbuck jink and diddle, To cheer you through the weary widdle O' this wild warl'.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Ay! mony a bane he snappit in At elbuck, thee, an' shouther; Gin ony wouldna gang his gait, Jock dang them a' to poother.

From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by Rorie, David

Hale be your heart, hale be your fiddle; Lang may your elbuck jink and diddle, To cheer you thro’ the weary widdle O’ war’ly cares, Till bairn’s bairns kindly cuddle Your auld, gray hairs.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert