Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA boastful or bullying man. · Used as a term of address: young lad, friend, pal.
From buck (“male antelope, deer, etc.; adventurous or high-spirited young man”) + -o (colloquializing suffix).
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