English Explanatory Dictionary

buckeen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. a poor young man of the lower Anglo-Irish gentry who aspires to the habits and dress of the wealthy.

Word forms

buckeen buckeens

Etymology

From Irish boicín, the diminutive of boc. Equivalent to buck + -een.

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