buck

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• /bʌk/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbʌk/
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• Ireland, Northern-England: /ˈbʊk/ without the foot-strut split
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• /ˈbɜk/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, fronting
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈbäk/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈbɐ̞k/
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• homophone: book (without the foot-strut split)
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* For both the English surname and given name, originally a nickname for someone who resembled a buck. * Also as an English topographic surname, from Middle English buk (modern beech). * As a German and Dutch surname, shortened from Burkhard, compare Burkhart. * As a north German and Danish surname, from Middle Low German bûk (“belly”), from Old Saxon būk, from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz. Compare Bauch. * Also as a German and Dutch surname, variant of Bock. * Also as a German surname, variant of Puck. * As a Germanized Lower Sorbian surname, from buk (“beech”).

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhuǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *bhuǵ-ko-s Proto-Germanic *bukkaz Proto-Germanic *bukkô Proto-West Germanic *bukkō Old English bucca Middle English bukke English buck Inherited from Middle English bukke. Doublet of puck (“billy goat”). Currency-related senses hail from American English, a clipping of buckskin as a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748). The idea of rigidly standing implements is instilled by Dutch bok (“sawhorse”) as in zaagbok (“sawbuck”). The sense of an object indicating someone’s turn then occurred in American English, possibly originating from the game poker, where a knife (typically with a hilt made from a stag horn) was used as a place-marker to signify whose turn it was to deal. The place-marker was commonly referred to as a buck, which reinforced the term “pass the buck” used in poker, and eventually a silver dollar was used in place of a knife, which also led to a dollar being referred to as a buck.

See beech.

From Middle English bouken (“steep in lye”), ultimately related to the root of beech. Cognate with Middle High German büchen, Swedish byka, Danish byge and Low German būken.

From Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk, body, hull of a ship, fishtrap, container”), from Old English būc (“belly, bottle, jug, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz. Doublet of bucket.

From dialectal buck ("to give in, yield"; also bug (“to bend”)), from Middle Low German bucken (“to bend”) or Middle Dutch bucken, bocken (“to bend”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *bukkōn (“to bend, bend repeatedly”), from Proto-Germanic *bukkōną (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhugh-, *bhewgh- (“to bend”) + Proto-Germanic *-(u)kōną. Cognate with Old Frisian bukkia (“to bend”). Influenced in some senses by buck “male goat” (see above). Sense “to meet, to encounter” is a semantic loan from Jamaican Creole buck. Compare bow and elbow.

From Hindi बकना (baknā, “babble, talk nonsense”).

113 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: وَعْل (waʕl) — male deer, goat, etc.
• Arabic: كَبْش (kabš) — male deer, goat, etc.
• Bulgarian: самец (samec) — male deer, goat, etc.
• Bulgarian: мъжкар (mǎžkar) — male deer, goat, etc.
• Catalan: cérvol — male deer, goat, etc.
• Catalan: boc — male deer, goat, etc.
• Czech: jelen — male deer, goat, etc.
• Czech: beran — male deer, goat, etc.
• Czech: kozel — male deer, goat, etc.
• Danish: buk — male deer, goat, etc.
• Dutch: bok — male deer, goat, etc.
• Esperanto: boko — male deer, goat, etc.
• Esperanto: cerviĉo — male deer, goat, etc.
• Esperanto: vircervo — male deer, goat, etc.
• Estonian: sokk — male deer, goat, etc.
• Faroese: havur — male deer, goat, etc.
• Finnish: uros — male deer, goat, etc.
• Finnish: pukki — male deer, goat, etc.
• Finnish: koiras — male deer, goat, etc.
• French: bouc — male deer, goat, etc.
• Galician: beche — male deer, goat, etc.
• Galician: godallo — male deer, goat, etc.
• Galician: bode — male deer, goat, etc.
• Galician: hirco — male deer, goat, etc.
• Galician: castrón — male deer, goat, etc.
• German: Bock — male deer, goat, etc.
• German: Rammler — male deer, goat, etc.
• German: Rüde — male deer, goat, etc.
• Greek: αρσενικό ελάφι (arsenikó eláfi) — male deer, goat, etc.
• Hebrew: אַיָּל (ayyál) — male deer, goat, etc.
• Hungarian: bak — male deer, goat, etc.
• Icelandic: hafur — male deer, goat, etc.
• Irish: poc — male deer, goat, etc.
• Italian: Maschio di cervo — male deer, goat, etc.
• Italian: antilope — male deer, goat, etc.
• Italian: daino — male deer, goat, etc.
• Italian: camoscio — male deer, goat, etc.
• Italian: lepre — male deer, goat, etc.
• Italian: coniglio o canguro — male deer, goat, etc.
• Kashmiri: ژھاوُل (ċhāvul) — male deer, goat, etc.
• Middle English: bukke — male deer, goat, etc.
• Navajo: bįįhkąʼ — male deer, goat, etc.
• Navajo: bįįstsoh — male deer, goat, etc.
• Occitan: boc — male deer, goat, etc.
• Old English: bucca — male deer, goat, etc.
• Old English: bucc — male deer, goat, etc.
• Old Norse: hafr — male deer, goat, etc.
• Portuguese: macho — male deer, goat, etc.
• Portuguese: gamo — male deer, goat, etc.
• Russian: саме́ц (saméc) — male deer, goat, etc.
• Scottish Gaelic: fear-choinean — male deer, goat, etc.
• Serbo-Croatian: јарац — male deer, goat, etc.
• Serbo-Croatian: jarac — male deer, goat, etc.
• Somali: orgi — male deer, goat, etc.
• Spanish: buco — male deer, goat, etc.
• Spanish: gamo — male deer, goat, etc.
• Spanish: macho — male deer, goat, etc.
• Spanish: macho m cabrío — male deer, goat, etc.
• Spanish: macho del conejo — male deer, goat, etc.
• Swedish: bock — male deer, goat, etc.
• Ottoman Turkish: تكه (teke) — male deer, goat, etc.
• Ottoman Turkish: اركج (erkec) — male deer, goat, etc.
• Welsh: bwch — male deer, goat, etc.
• Finnish: kolli — adventurous or high-spirited young man
• German: Bock — adventurous or high-spirited young man
• Finnish: keikari — fop or dandy
• German: Bock — fop or dandy
• Hungarian: piperkőc — fop or dandy
• Italian: damerino — fop or dandy
• Italian: moscardino — fop or dandy
• Russian: щёголь (ščógolʹ) — fop or dandy
• Spanish: caballerete — fop or dandy
• Spanish: pisaverde — fop or dandy
• Bulgarian: долар (dolar) — informal: dollar
• Esperanto: dolaro — informal: dollar
• Finnish: taala — informal: dollar
• French: piasse — informal: dollar
• French: balle — informal: dollar
• Hungarian: dolcsi — informal: dollar
• Italian: dollaro — informal: dollar
• Japanese: バック (bakku) — informal: dollar
• Korean: 불 (bul) — informal: dollar
• Polish: baks — informal: dollar
• Polish: dolec — informal: dollar
• Polish: zielony — informal: dollar
• Russian: бакс (baks) — informal: dollar
• Russian: зелёный (zeljónyj) — informal: dollar
• Russian: капу́ста (kapústa) — informal: dollar
• Spanish: pavo — informal: dollar
• Spanish: pavos — informal: dollar
• Swedish: dollar — informal: dollar
• Unami: palëpay — informal: dollar
• Finnish: satku — slang: one hundred of anything
• Finnish: saturainen — slang: one hundred of anything
• Finnish: huntti — slang: one hundred of anything
• Italian: centinaio — slang: one hundred of anything
• Finnish: musta pekka — metaphorically: blame, responsibility, scapegoating, finger-pointing
• Finnish: syntipukki — metaphorically: blame, responsibility, scapegoating, finger-pointing
• Italian: responsabilità — metaphorically: blame, responsibility, scapegoating, finger-pointing
• Czech: vyhazovat — of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs
• Dutch: bokken — of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs
• Finnish: vikuroida — of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs
• French: ruer — of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs
• Italian: sgroppare — of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs
• Māori: tūpeke — of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs
• Māori: tānapu — of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs
• Spanish: corcovear — of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs
• Swedish: slå bakut — of a horse: to leap upward arching its back, kicking out hind legs
• Finnish: vikuroida — to resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly
• Finnish: vastustaa — to resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly
• German: sich widersetzen — to resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly
• Russian: сопротивляться (soprotivljatʹsja) — to resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly
• Ukrainian: брика́тися (brykátysja) — to resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly