Antonyms for bucked


Grammar : Verb
Spell : buhkt
Phonetic Transcription : bÊŒkt


Definition of bucked

Origin :
  • "male deer," c.1300, earlier "male goat;" from Old English bucca "male goat," from Proto-Germanic *bukkon (cf. Old Saxon buck, Middle Dutch boc, Dutch bok, Old High German boc, German Bock, Old Norse bokkr), perhaps from a PIE root *bhugo (cf. Avestan buza "buck, goat," Armenian buc "lamb"), but some speculate that it is from a lost pre-Germanic language. Barnhart says Old English buc "male deer," listed in some sources, is a "ghost word or scribal error."
  • Meaning "dollar" is 1856, American English, perhaps an abbreviation of buckskin, a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days, attested in this sense from 1748. Pass the buck is first recorded in the literal sense 1865, American English:
  • The 'buck' is any inanimate object, usually knife or pencil, which is thrown into a jack pot and temporarily taken by the winner of the pot. Whenever the deal reaches the holder of the 'buck', a new jack pot must be made. [J.W. Keller, "Draw Poker," 1887]
  • Perhaps originally especially a buck-handled knife. The figurative sense of "shift responsibility" is first recorded 1912. Buck private is recorded by 1870s, of uncertain signification.
  • verb resist, kick off
Example sentences :
  • I'd like to hear Weary or anybody else stand up and tell me that I got bucked off.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
  • And the girl—Miss Desha has bucked poverty like a thoroughbred.
  • Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
  • Mother's fearfully' bucked, and Dawker's simply oozing triumph.
  • Extract from : « The Skin Game (Fourth Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
  • Bucked and throwed me, but I kept my holt o' the stirrups with my foot—so!
  • Extract from : « A Waif of the Plains » by Bret Harte
  • He bucked up firewood and stacked it to move into camp with the first snow.
  • Extract from : « Cat and Mouse » by Ralph Williams
  • But if they did, I am sure it was a quadruped that reared and bucked and kicked up its heels.
  • Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton
  • I dont think Marmaduke was ever so bucked in his life, said Mrs. Conover placidly.
  • Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke
  • I admit you have courage, but you'd have still more, if you bucked the wilds.
  • Extract from : « Free Air » by Sinclair Lewis
  • Sounds like your grandpappy had a burr under his tail an' bucked it out on you.
  • Extract from : « Ride Proud, Rebel! » by Andre Alice Norton
  • I found old Nute in the seventh; and I was bucked the moment I got in.
  • Extract from : « The Sleuth of St. James's Square » by Melville Davisson Post

Synonyms for bucked

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