adj
Meaning 1
Wavy; curly, as hair.
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Standard Lemma guide
buckling
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/ˈbʌk.əl.ɪŋ/
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/ˈbʌk.lɪŋ/
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rhymes with -ʌklɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: B AH1 K L IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The act of fastening a buckle.
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noun
Meaning 3
A folding into hills and valleys.
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Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).
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noun
Meaning 5
A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
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Examples
- 1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 715, If you do have extra milk, then by all means raise your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.
- 1994, Mary C. Smith and David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 429, The newborn doe kids destined to become habitual aborters (and the buckling that carries the trait) are above average in weight and have a very fine haircoat.
- 1997, Ruth Schubarth, “Born Backwards”, in Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell M. Collier, and Nancy Curtis (eds.), Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West, Houghton Mifflin Books, →ISBN, page 161, I milk the goats and put wethers (the castrated bucklings) in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs.
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noun
Meaning 6
Smoked herring.
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verb
Meaning 7
present participle and gerund of buckle
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Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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History
Etymology
From the verb to buckle, equivalent to buckle + -ing.
Etymology tree English buck Proto-Indo-European *-lósder. Proto-Germanic *-ilaz Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kwo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *-ilingaz Proto-West Germanic *-ling Old English -ling Middle English -ling English -ling English buckling From buck + -ling.
From German Bückling or Swedish böckling. Cognate with Middle High German bockinc and Middle Dutch bocking (itself from bok (“buck”), referencing the foul smell).
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: flamareig — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- French: flambage — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- German: Knicken — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- German: Knick (kink) — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- German: Knickung — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- German: Stauchung — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- German: Knickbildung (kinking) — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- German: Verbiegen — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- German: Beulen — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- German: Ausbeulen — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- German: Wölben — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- German: Wölbung — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- German: Bombage — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- German: Walkung — kinking, bending or bulging under pressure or stress
- Dutch: bokking — smoked herring
- Finnish: savusilli — smoked herring
- Norwegian Bokmål: bøkling — smoked herring
- Swedish: böckling — smoked herring
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