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hawbucks

hawbucks is the plural of hawbuck.

Meaning of hawbuck

Noun

hawbuck (plural hawbucks)

  1. (obsolete) A vulgar, ignorant country fellow.
    • In fact, a horse that has been accustomed to be attended by a stableman will want to have little niceties done to him that a hawbuck of a groom never thinks of doing.1851, Harry Hieover, The Pocket and the Stud, page 93

Questions about hawbucks

What is hawbucks the plural of?
Hawbucks is the plural of hawbuck.

Words near hawbucks in the dictionary

  1. Hawbakers
  2. hawberk
  3. hawberks
  4. HAWBs
  5. hawbuck
  6. hawbucks
  7. Hawcoat
  8. Hawcroft
  9. Hawcrofts
  10. Hawcubite
  11. Hawcubites

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