buckism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]buckism (uncountable)
- (archaic) The quality of being a young buck; adventurous high spirits.
- 1811, The Scourge; or Monthly expositor, of imposture and folly, page 91:
- His mode of dissipating time, and defying the statutes to which he had sworn obedience, was in the true style of university buckism.