BUCK, v. to overcome, to beat.
- 'O kno Jack's a rum stick, but o think he'll be buck'd this toime.'—Bywater, 47. Of a heavy load it is said that it will give the horse a bucking before he gets home.
BUCKA, sb. a thick piece of bread on which butter is generally spread with the thumb.
BUCKA HILL, near the Peacock Inn, between Sheffield and Baslow. O. M. A.S. bucca, a he-goat?
BUCKED-UP, smartly dressed.
BUCKSWANGING, sb. a punishment used by grinders and other workmen for idleness, drunkenness, &c. The offender is jostled against a thorn hedge or a wall. It requires four men to do this, two to hold the offender's arms and two to hold his legs. Grinders generally buckswang a man against the wall of the grinding wheel.
- A man was lately tied to a hand-cart, wheeled through the streets, and beaten with straps. He was said to have been buck-swanged.
BUDGE, v. to move or shift.
- 'Come, my lad, budge'
BUFF, sb. a child's game.
- A number of children sit in a row on a form. One of them stands out and is called Buff. Buff has a stick, and coming opposite to the first child he raps on the floor several times. The child says, 'Who's there?' The answer is 'Buff,' which is spoken in a gruff voice. ''What says Buff?' the child asks. Buff replies:—
- 'Buff says "Buff" to all his men,
- And I say "Buff" to you again.'
- Then the child says in a mild voice:—
- 'Methinks Buff smiles.'
- Buff replies:—
- 'Buff neither laughs nor smiles;
- But shows his face
- With a comely grace,
- And leaves his staff at the very next place.'
- If the child fails to make Buff laugh, he takes the staff and plays Buff.
BUFF, sb. a wheel covered with buff leather on which the horn handles of knives were polished by the cutlers with Trent sand and rotten stone. Hunter's MS.
BUFF, sb. the naked skin.
- 'But Joe was strip'd unto his buff.'
- Mather's Songs, 9.
- 'But Joe was strip'd unto his buff.'
- See CUDDLE-ME-BUFF.
