buckling

Meanings

Noun

• The act of fastening a buckle.
• A folding into hills and valleys.
• The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.
• A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
• Smoked herring.

Adjective

• Wavy; curly, as hair.

Origin

• From the verb buckle, equivalent to buckle + -ing.
• buck + -ling.
• From German Bückling or Swedish böckling. Cognate with Middle High German bockinc and Middle Dutch bocking (itself from bok, referencing the foul smell).