单词 | buck of the first head |
释义 | > as lemmasbuck of the first head b. The male of the fallow-deer. (In early use perhaps the male of any kind of deer.) buck of the first head, great buck (see quot. 1774). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Cervus > cervus dama (fallow deer) > male bucka1000 havier1676 a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 119 Ceruus uel eripes, heortbuc. a1240 Cuckoo Song 10 Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 45 She sigh..The buck, the doo, the hert. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 55 Buk, best, dama. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 10 The Deare..was a Bucke of the first head. View more context for this quotation 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia i. 3 He sent vs commonly euery day a brace of Bucks. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 128 The buck is..called..the fifth [year], a buck of the first head; and the sixth, a great buck. buck of the first head (ii) figurative. Of a person (usually a man): (a) recently ennobled or raised in rank, parvenu; (b) that has only recently come to adulthood; esp. displaying the vigour, high spirits, immaturity, etc., considered typical of that age (esp. in buck of the first head; cf. buck n.1 2b); (c) unsurpassed, out-and-out; = of the first water at water n. Phrases 1e. Now chiefly in historical contexts. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > raising to noble rank > ennobled [phrase] > newly ennobled of the first head1509 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xix A fox furred Jentelman: of the fyrst yere or hede. ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth Prol. f. v Gentylmen of ye first heed which were wont to preuent auncyent noblemen & ascende vnto vertu, & nobles, by vertuous maners. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum xx. 28 Such men are called sometime in scorne gentlemen of the first head. a1627 H. Shirley Martyr'd Souldier (1638) v. sig. H3 The young fellowes..will runne into the parke of Matrimony at sixteene: are Bucks of the first head at eighteene. a1631 J. Downe Amulet 16 in Certaine Treat. (1633) Precedencie is any mans rather then the Ministers: euery Mammonist, euery younger brother, euery vpstart of the first head must haue the place from vs. a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady ii. iii. 23 in Wks. (1640) III A Lady O' the first head I'ld have her. 1663 F. B. Vercingetorixa 3 [She] was to England come to wed A City-Chick of the first Head. 1771 Town & Country Mag. Mar. 150/2 Samon, notwithstanding his gown, threw off all reserve, and was a buck of the first head in the Garden. 1785 Town & Country Mag. Feb. 96/1 Alexander Allcant is a hypocrite of the first head, as you will soon perceive. 1835 London Lit. Gaz. 14 Mar. 164/3 He is a bibliomaniac and pedant of the first head. 1852 Southern Lit. Messenger Dec. 753/1 Tom Edmundson was a buck of the first head—gay, witty, dashing, vain, proud, handsome and volatile. 1895 All Year Round 16 Feb. 159/1 He..speedily gained admittance to many of the fashionable clubs... Nobody could deny that he was a buck of the first head. 1954 G. Heyer Toll-gate xv. 236 He's a Bartholomew baby, and thinks himself a buck of the first head. 1981 D. Chester French Slippers i. 25 Anyone with the least discernment could see at a glance that Lord du Vallon is to be trusted. A gentleman of the first head, obviously. 2012 S. Busbee Desire becomes Her v. 97 The Crown was far too respectable and staid to appeal to two gentlemen who considered themselves bucks of the first head. < as lemmas |
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