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buckskin

Syllables: buck·skin/ˈbʌkˌskɪn/

buckskin noun: the skin of a male deer, a buck.

buckskin: the skin of a male deer, a buck
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Noun

buckskin (countable and uncountable, plural buckskins)

  1. The skin of a male deer, a buck.
  2. Clothing made from buckskin.
    • As she spoke, we perceived two lines of figures, one male and the other female, to the number of about a hundred, each advancing round the human bonfire, arrayed only in the usual leopard and buck skins.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  3. Breeches made of buckskin.
    • I have alluded to his buckskins.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
  4. A grayish yellow in colour.
  5. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
  6. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
    • Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man.1784, Robert Burns, Ballad on the American War
  7. A horse with a light yellowish-brown coat and black mane and tail.

Adjective

buckskin (not comparable)

  1. Of a grayish yellow in colour.

buckskin meaning in Tamil and Kannada

buckskin in Tamil

ஈரம் உறிஞ்சுக் கம்பளி

buckskin in Kannada

ಅಜಿನ, ಜಿಂಕೆಚರ್ಮ

Forms of buckskin

pluralbuckskins

Origin of buckskin

From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck + skin.

Words formed from buckskin

Questions about buckskin

What does buckskin mean?
Buckskin means the skin of a male deer, a buck.
What is buckskin in Tamil?
Buckskin in Tamil is ஈரம் உறிஞ்சுக் கம்பளி. See Buckskin meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is buckskin?
Buckskin can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce buckskin?
Buckskin is pronounced /ˈbʌkˌskɪn/.
What is the plural of buckskin?
The plural of buckskin is buckskins.

Words near buckskin in the dictionary

  1. buckshorn plantain
  2. buckshorn plantains
  3. buckshot
  4. buckshot land
  5. buckshots
  6. buckskin
  7. buckskinned
  8. buckskins
  9. bucksom
  10. bucksome
  11. bucksow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buckskin (page history and authors); buckskin (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); buckskin (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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