hawbuck
English
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]hawbuck (plural hawbucks)
- (obsolete) A vulgar, ignorant country fellow.
- 1851, Harry Hieover, The Pocket and the Stud, page 93:
- In fact, a horse that has been accustomed to be attended by a stableman will want to have little niceties done to him that a hawbuck of a groom never thinks of doing.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary