单词 | goat buck |
释义 | goat buckn. An adult male goat. Cf. buck-goat n. at buck n.1 Compounds 1a, ramgoat n. (a) at ram n.1 Compounds 2.In quot. OE in a genitive phrase gatbuccan hyrde, apparently ‘goat buck's skin’; the unexpected reference to a male goat suggests that the preceding capra may reflect a transmission error for a form of classical Latin caper male goat. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > male buckc1000 goat buckOE ramgoat1566 buck-goatc1615 puckaun1735 willy-goat1809 billy1849 billy-goat1860 OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 58 Capra [perhaps read capri] ægida, gatbuccan hyrde. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. ix. 12 Nether by blood of gootbuckis [L. hircorum] or of caluys, but bi his owne blood. a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 52 (MED) Take the blode of a gayte buke. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. xxx. 35 And he departide..the geet, and scheep, geet buckis [L. hircos], and rammes. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) viii. x. sig. v.ii/2 A gote bucke is a beest wyth hornes stondynge vpwarde. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xliii. 22 Take a gootbuck without blemish for a synoffringe. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 88 The Gote-bucke is verie wanton or lasciuious. 1663 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. i. 89/1 Matthiolus, tels us that in sundry places of Bohemia, three Goat-Bucks were found, that gave milk, by which persons that had the Falling-sickness were Cured. 1728 Bibliotheca Biblica IV. (Num. xv. 22) 167 They are willed to bring a Bullock for a Burnt-offering, and a Goat-buck for a Sin-offering. 1886 J. H. Dixon Gairloch i. vi. 23 They went away in the morning of the next day, after making cuaranan (untanned shoes) of the skin of the goat buck. 1982 Man 17 411 It was possible to use a modification of the techniques suggested by Higham (1968) to calculate separate slaughter patterns for goat bucks and does. 2015 B. V. Beaver & D. L. Höglund Efficient Livestock Handling ix. 197 One or both goat bucks will flick their tongues, rear up on their hind legs, slightly rotate their necks, and then lunge until their heads collide. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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