buckie
1 of 3noun (1)
buck·ie
ˈbəkē
plural -s
chiefly Scottish
: a spiral-shelled marine gastropod or its shell
especially : red whelk
buckie
2 of 3noun (2)
"
plural -s
Scottish
: a perverse intractable person
buckie
3 of 3noun (3)
"
plural -s
New England
: alewife sense 1a
especially : an alewife smoked for food
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
perhaps modification of Latin buccinum, bucinum, a shellfish used in dyeing purple, from bucina, buccina trumpet, shell used as a trumpet
Noun (2)
perhaps modification of Latin buccinum
Noun (3)
origin unknown
- pietistic
- pietistically
- pietists
- pietoso
- piets
- piety
- pietà
- piezo crystal
- piezo resonator
- piezo-
- piezocrystallization
- piezoelectric
- piezoelectric oscillator
- piezoelectrically
- piezoelectricities
- piezoelectricity
- piezoluminescence
- piezometer
- piezometers
- piezometric
- piezometric surface
- piezometries
- pif paf
- pifero
- piffaro