Word.ws English Dictionary

prongbuck

prongbuck noun: the springbok.

Noun

prongbuck (plural prongbucks)

  1. (dated) The springbok.
  2. The pronghorn
    • Thus the whitetail deer had thrust forward along the very narrow river bottoms into the domain of the mule-deer and the prongbuck among the foothills of the Rocky Mountains1905, Theodore Roosevelt, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

Forms of prongbuck

pluralprongbucks

Origin of prongbuck

From prong + buck.

Questions about prongbuck

What does prongbuck mean?
Prongbuck means the springbok.
What part of speech is prongbuck?
Prongbuck is a noun.
What is the plural of prongbuck?
The plural of prongbuck is prongbucks.

Words near prongbuck in the dictionary

  1. prong hoe
  2. prong hoes
  3. prong-billed barbet
  4. prong-billed barbets
  5. prong-set
  6. prongbuck
  7. prongbucks
  8. pronged
  9. pronggill
  10. pronggills
  11. pronghorn

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prongbuck (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “prongbuck.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/prongbuck. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.