buckeen
Meaning
Noun
- a poor young man of the lower Anglo-Irish gentry who aspires to the habits and dress of the wealthy.
Origin
- From Irish boicín, the diminutive of boc. Equivalent to buck + -een.
Modern English dictionary
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