Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The Scotch name for marine univalve shells in general, as whelks, etc.: especially applied to the red whelk, Chrysodomus antiquus, also called the roaring buckie, from the sound heard when it is held to the ear.
- n. A perverse, refractory person; a mischievous madcap.
- n. Same as buckie, 2.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.), Scot. A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See buccinum.
Examples
“Snow, in his own words, he did not give a "buckie" [5] for.”
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
“I have a 3-D deer target that i keep in my backyard to practice on during deer season with my bow. something kept knocking it over. it happened 3 or 4 times. i thought it might be a nice buck since the rut had started. i set my camera up to see what was happening to buckie. little to my surprise, it wasn't a buck, but a deer's worst nightmare. the backyard kitty.”
“I think the criminals buckie was refering to was the international war criminals Bush and Cheney.”
Think Progress » Maddow Corrects GOP Rep. Schock On Basic Facts Of Abdulmuttalab Case
“You must have some kinda ‘different’ definition of ‘intelligence’, buckie.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sotomayor May be Wrong About Race, but She is No Racist:
“Electric soup — see buckie, also a Scottish comic book.”
“Aye, is't, though, my buckie?" says he, looking more like a spiteful goblin than ever.”
“Five hundred, my buckie; it's mair than your worth.”
“We thanked our formidable-looking friend for her company and, presenting her with a John o 'Groat's buckie, bade her farewell.”
“The crab and lobster haunt in the crevices; and limpets, mussels, and the white buckie abound.”
“--- I cannot get the words of that cankered auld cripple deil's buckie out o 'my head --- the least thing makes me dread some ill news.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘buckie’.
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molluscs
very comprehensive list
of molluscs,who does not like
calamari? hmm yum
molluscigerous
100,000 species just in molluscsabalone, ammonite, argonaut, ataata, belon, bivalve, blackhead, bluepoint, brachiopod, buckie, byssal, byssus and 271 more...
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supernatural creatures according to M...
Turned this up on etymonline.com (link). It's amazing.
Hobbit (n.)
1937, coined in the fantasy tales of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973).
On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole...niss, nisses, thrummy-cap, fairy, whitewoman, nicknevin, sibyl, fates, sprite, gnome, cuttie, scrat and 186 more...
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PECH - marine species
African cuttlefish, Alaska plaice, Alaska pollock, Alaska pollack, walleye pollock, alewife, gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, allis shad, American angler, goosefish and 994 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Mollusks
"Snaily, clammy, squidy" has evolved into a vehicle for linking to mollusk quotations, so I've started this list for vernacular names of mollusks.
clam, snail, slug, squid, octopus, nautilus, conch, chank, whelk, mussel, oyster, scallop and 221 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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Buckaroo
Nicknames for Buckfast, per Wikipedia.
wreck-the-hoose j..., commotion lotion, tonic, the wine, buckie
Tweets
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bilby Also a town in Scotland. The Wikipedia suggests an etymology: "...being derived from the Gaelic word boc or Welsh bowk, both meaning a buck or male deer so this would suggest the meaning of Buckie as place where male deer gather." Aug 6, 2010
ruzuzu "1. The Scotch name for marine univalve shells in general, as whelks, etc.: especially applied to the red whelk, Chrysodomus antiquus, also called the roaring buckie, from the sound heard when it is held to the ear.
2. A perverse, refractory person; a mischievous madcap."
- The Century Dictionary Aug 6, 2010