buckien.
/ˈbʌki/, U.S. /ˈbəki/, Scottish English /ˈbʌkɪ/ Scottish.1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 57 In the space of xii. houris thay grow in fair cokilis or bukies.1638 H. Adamson Muses Threnodie f. 4 Triton, his trumpet of a buckie, Propin'd to him, was large and luckie.1814 W. Scott Diary 15 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. 194 They gather shells on the shore called Johnnie Groat's buckies.1842 D. D. Black Let. 13 Apr. in G. Petrie Eccl. Archit. Ireland (1845) 93 Oyster shells, buckies or sea-shells.
1. The whorled shell of any mollusc; e.g. whelk.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > mollusc or sea-shells
buckie1596
blackamoor's tooth1700
burgau1753
seashell1837
Bombay shell1858
paua shell1873
black helmet1876
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell
seashella900
shale1561
buckie1596
caracol1622
valve1661
spire1681
umbilicus1688
conch-shell1697
wart-shell?1711
needle1713
multivalve1753
concha1755
periosteum1758
conch1773
devil's claw1773
furbelow1776
peewit's egg1776
worm-tube1776
rosebud1815
sheath1815
periostracum1833
epicuticle1885
epicuticula1886
leg of mutton1891
trivalve1891
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 48 And with a bukky in my cheik bo on him behind.]
2. A perverse or refractory person.
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1719 A. Ramsay Epist. to Hamilton iii Gin ony sourmou'd girning bucky Ca' me conceity keckling chucky.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 570 If envious buckies view wi' sorrow Thy lengthen'd days.
1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xi. 133 It was that deevil's buckie, Callum Beg. View more context for this quotation
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