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▪ I. buckeen1 Anglo-Irish.|bʌˈkiːn|
[f. buck n.1 2 + -een, dim. suffix; cf. squireen.]
A young man belonging to the ‘second-rate gentry’ of Ireland, or a younger son of the poorer aristocracy, having no profession, and aping the habits of the wealthier classes.
1793S. Crumpe Essay, Empl. People 181 Those nuisances..to every rank of society..bucks and buckeens. 1812M. Edgeworth Absentee vii, Squireens..a race of men who have succeeded to the Buckeens. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. vi. (1858) 320 After College, he..lived for some years the life of a buckeen.
▪ II. buckeen2|bʌˈkiːn|
[ad. Guiana Du. *bokin, fem. of bok goat, buck (see buck n.1 2 d).]
A female aboriginal Indian in Guiana.
1806G. Pinckard Notes West Indies II. 405 The morning was..spent..in hearing M. Heynemann relate his adventures among the Indians; whom he termed Bucks and Buckeen. 1868W. H. Brett Ind. Tribes Guiana 34 note, The Indian men and women were called by the Dutch ‘Bucks’ and ‘Buckeens’. 1899J. Rodway In Guiana Wilds 39 They called her a ‘buckeen’; how much prettier than the word squaw. |