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puckaun Anglo-Ir.|ˈpʌkɔːn|
Also puckawn.
[ad. Ir. pocán, a small male goat.]
A billy goat.
a1745Swift Irish Eloquence in Prose Wks. (1957) IV. 279 His Cows..would hardly give a drop of Milk..For his herd had lost the Puckaun. 1870P. Kennedy Fireside Stories of Ireland 7 Bring me the giant's puckawn with the golden bells round his neck. 1913J. Stephens Here are Ladies 287 Children will dance upon the slightest provocation, so also do lambs and goats; but policemen, and puckauns, and advertisement agents, and fish do not dance at all, and this is because they have hard hearts. 1953S. Beckett Watt iv. 246 Riley's puckaun again, said Mr Nolan, I can smell him from here. |