10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «BUCKEEN»
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buckeen nella seguente selezione bibliografica. Libri associati con
buckeen e piccoli estratti per contestualizzare il loro uso nella letteratura.
That's all you know about it, Buckeen," said a tall man with a red nose and a
squint, who looked as if he were gazing at the bottles behind the bar though he
really was watching Mr. Gideon. " I will take a thousand to five hundred from any
one," ...
James Hogg, Florence Marryat, 1886
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A Supplementary English Glossary
BUCKEEN. speaks of "bruckel'd children." It is just possible that the word in
Putten- ham may bear this meaning, but the other seems more likely. Goe now
and giue thy life vnto the winde, Trusting unto a piece of bruckle wood, Foure
inches ...
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1881
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The Ladies' pocket magazine
Accordingly, Father Colfer mounted his horse Buckeen, comforted the departing
spirit, and returned in time to drink the illicit potation before it was cold. Hospitality
is the characteristic of the Irish peasant, and Father Colfer is too kind to offend ...
Quoted in Penny Summerfield, "Patriotism and Empire: Music Hall Entertainment
1870-1914," in Imperialism and Popular Culture, ed. John McKensie (Manchester
: Manchester University Press, 1986). 41. See L. H. Piatt, "The Buckeen and the ...
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Luck at the diamond fields
"That's all you know about it, Buckeen," said a tall man with a red nose and a
squint, who looked as if he were gazing at the bottles behind the bar, though he
really was watching Mr. Gideon. "I will take a thousand to five hundred from any
one," ...
Dalrymple James Belgrave, 1887
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Tired: Uppingham, from ca 1860; ob. Contrast BUCK UP. 2. Encouraged, elated;
cheered, cheerful: from ca 1905. cf. BUCK UP, 3. buckeen . A bully: coll, Anglo-
Irish: late C.18–early 19. In S.E., 'a younger son'. Ex BUCK after squireen. bucker.
But before a Scotchman, myself would prefar the poorest spalpeen — barring it
be Phil, the buckeen — I ax pardon (curtsying), if a buckeen's the more
honourable. Mr. Carv. Irrelevant in toto, madam ; for buckeens and spalpeens are
manners ...
Maria [collections] Edgeworth, 1857
But before a Scotchman, myself would prefar the poorest spalpeen — barring it
be Phil, the buckeen — I ax pardon (curtsying), if a buckeen's the more
honourable. Mr. Carv. Irrelevantin toto, madam ; for buckeens and spalpeens are
manners ...
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The Zozimus Papers: A Series of Comic and Sentimental ...
His brother, it will be remembered, was a buckeen ; but Mike had an intellectual
contempt for the proprieties of costume, which no fraternal example, however
brilliant, was capable of correcting. He hated shiny hats, despised cravats, ...
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Patronage, concluded. Comic dramas. Leonora. Letters
But before a Scotchman, myself would prefar the poorest spalpeen — barring it
be Phil, the buckeen — I ax pardon (curtsying), if a buckeen's the more
honourable. Mr. Carv. Irrelevant in toto, madam ; for buckeens and spalpeens are
manners ...
