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Midnight Spy 109: A parcel of jolly bucks, who were determined to live their every hour, and scorned to waste their time snoring in bed. Smollett Peregrine Pickle (1964) 350: The company here were not so riotous as the Bucks of Covent-Garden. In D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 111: Altho’ I’m a Buck, I am not so Wild, / To nail up my Horns for another Man’s Hat. ![]() Ward Compleat and Humorous Account of all the Remarkable Clubs (1756) 88: Teach her ill Humours, and provoke the Shrew / To make him both a Buck and Beggar too. ‘A Song’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 86: Although I am a Buck, I am not so wild / To naile up my horns for another mans hat. Ray Proverbs (2nd edn) 67: He’s like a buck of the first-head. a bold, dashing man, a roisterer often as old buck. ‘Peter Pindar’ ‘Rights of Kings’ Works (1794) III 57: A young Officer, a buck, Dash’d forth, to pierce the middle of the light, Meaning to violate the Dame so good.īridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 247: A brave bold-hearted buck that’s willing.ģ. Lonsdale Spanish Rivals Prologue: What cheer aloft?-Any Bucks of Wapping? Come, come, all hands to clapping. ‘Peter Pindar’ ‘Lyric Odes’ Works (1794) I 31: The Buck, Like many English ones, much out of luck. n.p.: Come push about the Bottle, my Bucks let’s be brisk, / Let’s toast the fine Girls that grace India’s soil.īridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) 25: Militia bucks that know no fears. Andrews Fire and Water! (1790) 16: What, kiss and tell, my Buck of Brimstone. Nocturnal Revels I 9: The Buck took his doxy to a bagnio and the Blood carried off his Moll in triumph. Colman Oxonian in Town I ii: I have taken care to provide you some other dishes, too, my bucks.Ĭaledonian Mercury 13 June 1/2: This is the head of a Blood of the the town, or a Buck, for this, is the head of a woman of the town. In Sadler Song 208 Muses Delight 292/3: A buck, when he’s drunk, is a match for the devil. Samuel Cock’ Voyage to Lethe 32: I hear she is commanded by Captain Buck. She wants to go to buck, expressed of a wanton Woman, who is desirous of male-Conversation.īailey Universal Etym. n.p.: A bold Buck is sometimes used to signify a forward daring person of either Sex. Tavern Hunter 6: The very next Tavern Stood down in a Court of a Leacherous Name, Where Bucks that are Wild may have Does that are Tame. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 42: They in their eyes all holding fingers, / Star’d up like Bucks beholding Strangers. Urquhart (trans.) Rabelais III 12: more rammishly lascivious than a Buck. Taylor ‘An Armado’ in Works (1869) I 91: Traps for vermin, Grinnes for wild Guls, Baytes for tame Fooles, Sprindges for Woodcockes, Pursenets for Connies, Toyles for mad Buckes, Pennes for Geese, Hookes for Gudgeons, Snares for Buzzards, Bridles for old Iades, Curbes for Colts, Pitfals for Bulfinches and Hempen-slips for Asses. July VI 216/1: adopted the appellation which individually had been bestowed upon them by their neighbours, that of Bucks, Anglice, Cuckolds. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd edn) n.p.: A buck sometimes signifies a cuckold. ![]() additions n.p.: A Buck is sometimes used to Signifty a Cuckold. Burney Evelina (1861) 451: I fully intended to have treated the old buck with another frolic. Townley High Life Below Stairs I ii: A Buck of the first Head I’ll tell you a secret, he’s going to be married and I intend to cuckold him.įoote Commissary in Works (1799) II 25: You called me a buck, and moreover said that my horns were exalted.į. IV 10: Ladies, with their sweetest Looks, To Bucks and Rams, turn Lords and Dukes. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:2 11: Get you to Bed, you stagg’ring Beast. ‘Philomusus’ Marrow of Complements 177: When a man doth grow Much like a Buck you know Monstrum est. Davenport City-Night-Cap (1661) I 3: Let Ballet-mongers crown him with their scorns: Who buys the Bucks Head, well deserves the Horns. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor III iii: Buck, buck, buck! Ay, buck I warrant you buck and of the season too, it shall appear.
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